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Discuss the relevance of John Dewey's Ideas to educational practice in Swaziland

education is an essential process in human development. It is practised universal and engage in by societies at all stages of development. Education liberates the mind and make someone to have a purpose in life. Swaziland also have its own education system. Education came to Swaziland through missionaries who came to the country with the whites who colonized the country. They wanted to help Swazi people to be able to read the Bible. In this essay the writer will discuss the relevance of John Dewey's ideas to educational practise in Swaziland. However definition of key terms will be defined which are education and educational practice.

According to Farrant(1980), education, describes the total process of human learning by which knowledge is imparted, faculties trained and skills developed. Education provides knowledge, instruction or information to people that helps to see things in a different way or they have enlightened with what is happening in the world.

Educational practice may mean research on regular and special education instrucitonal strategies or research on effectiveness of comparison among instructional techniques, curricular or classroom management method. Www.heinemann.com.

John Dewey one of the founder of the pragmatism theory of truth was highly influental

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