My power flurries through the air into the ground Habituation swirls in our environment all around We've got to break through our fixed and rigid habits with a blast I'm never going back, passive acquiescence is in the past ‘Dualism 2: Habituation vs. Adaptation Defined: 1. Habituation: our own adjustment to an environment, which can end up making us too passive to sustain the active habits necessary for growth; - 2. Adaptation: practice of active habits which conform to an extent to the environment, but that also in turn transform aspects of the environment itself It's a problem because... 1. Avoidance of extreme “fixity of habit’ is tricky 2. Transforming the entire environment is not the aim of adaptation, but instead Dewey suggests that there should be a (delicate) complementary relationship between it and habituation 3 made. ‘equal to uniformity” (p. 49) — a. Consequences: “induced lack of interest in the novel, aversion to progress, and dread of the uncertain and the unknown’ (p. 49) So Dewey redefines it... 3. However, “Life is not to be identified with every superficial act and interest” (p. 49) 4 pene to grow depends on need for others and plasticity" (p. 50) eerie Which senhtibee Ds PODS By the problems by... 1. Giving students and teachers agency in a cooperative leaming process, which is navigable as long as growth is seen as a lifelong pursuit This improves education by... 1. Creating individuals who are capable and seek to be in active control of their environment a. Strong implications for participation in society b. “Indirecting the activities of the young, society determines its own future in determining that of the young” (p. 41) ‘of age" (p: 48)