What were the disadvantages of traditional education and what was Dewey's proposed progressivist view of education?

Dewey's consideration of the shortcomings of traditional education and his progressive view of education are as follows:

Dewey's curricular theory is strongly opposed to the traditional education of the knowledge system as the center of the curriculum, and at the same time criticized the traditional teaching materials and the real life are separated from the students' direct experience. detached from real life, ignoring students' direct experience, and making students' learning boring and tedious.

Additionally, traditional education, with its compartmentalized curricula, has mutilated the wholeness and unity of children's understanding of the world. This is also what Dewey disliked very much. He believed that individual courses should form a unity, and it is better to make a comprehensive course of study.

There is also a lack of modern social spirit in the intellectual content of the old textbooks. Dewey criticized this a lot. He also believed that the content of the textbooks have the past tense, can not highlight the spirit of the times and values.

Dewey made the following points:

The core of curriculum development should be centered on direct experience.

Activity Curriculum: schools should use activity curriculum as the main type of curriculum. Activity curriculum refers to the type of curriculum that is taught by carrying out activities.

Learning by Doing: Textbooks should guide students to learn by doing. "Learning by doing" means that students should actively learn from experience and from activities.

Psychologizing the material: the material should be written in such a way that it is "psychologized".

Psycho-logic: the development of materials should be based on the psychological logic of the students.

Teaching material direct experience: the content of the teaching material as far as possible to direct experience as a starting point for the preparation.