JOHN DEWEY’S PRAGMATIC CONCEPTIONS UPON AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON`S TRANSCENDENTALIST CONCEPTIONS ON AMERICAN LITERARY THEORY (A COMPARATIVE APPROACH)

This paper represents a comparative approach from the pragmatic and transcendentalist perspectives upon the American Progressive Education, respectively American Literary Theory, illustrated in John Dewey’s and Ralph Aldo Emerson`s writings, starting with the concept of experience, child - as the central part of both conceptions, continuing with individuality, rejection of the past, emphasising the importance of action, activity, culture and language in both cases.