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Contact Information:  Rose Martin                                    Ashley Koszalka

                                   Director of Cobblestone School     Social Media Associate

                                   Phone: 585-897-0934                     Phone: 786-909-3450

                                   E-mail: info@cobblestone.org        E-mail: alk2015@gmail.com

                                   www.cobblestone.org

Enriching Summertime at Cobblestone

February 17, 2012 10:00 am

News Facts

• ·      Cobblestone School is running a summer camp open to children ages 4-12.
• ·      The camp operates for a total of 6 weeks.
• ·      The camp is run like Cobblestone runs during the academic year.
• ·      Camp begins at 8:15 am and ends at 3 p.m..
• ·      An After Camp is available and runs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m..
• ·      Children get to experience and discover on 3 acres of Cobblestone School Campus.
• ·      Registration for the camp begins in April of the calendar year.

Quotes

• ·      “My kid’s favorite part of summer is going to camp, and I love all he takes away from it” –Mother of son who has gone to Cobblestone Summer Camp for 2 years.
• ·      “The children are naturally curious and wanting to learn more about the origins and how to do things, it’s truly amazing” –Martial Arts Instructor of the Cobblestone Summer Camp for the past 4 years.

      Related links:

Website: Details on what the Cobblestone Summer Camp does.

Website: American Camps Association

Article on how to: Choose a summer camp that is right for you and your child

About Cobblestone School

            Located right next to the Rochester city art district, Cobblestone School is alternative, progressive education for children ages 4-12. Margaret Forbes, Martha Herrick and Lynne Kliman in the basement of Immanuel Baptist Church founded Cobblestone in 1983. The school’s current location was bought in 1992 and is on three acres of land.

John Dewey

By Ashley Koszalka

John Dewey was an American philosopher and educational reformer.  His ideas of and beliefs in pragmatic philosophy bloomed when he joined the University of Chicago. He had a process-oriented and sociologically conscious opinion of the world and knowledge. John Dewey thought of things in non-traditional terms. He is one of the leaders of pragmatic philosophy, which he himself never recognized his methods as pragmatism.

Dewey’s influence on education was a recurring theme of education and learning being social and interactive processes. Schools are a social institution where social reform is to take place. He also believed that students succeed where they can experience and interact with curriculum and the students being capable of participating in what they learn.

Traditionally school systems focus on a pre-determined set of skills students should learn. John Dewey believes schools should help students realize their full potential and ability to use skills for the good of all.

There was also an argument that too much reliance on children in the education system could lead to an equally problematic learning process. According to John Dewey, teachers should be a facilitator and guide to assist children in how to respond to influences. Instead of the teacher being the informer, they become a partner in the learning process, guiding and not directing the children. This method allows the children enough room for expanding potential and different forms of thinking while still learning what is deemed necessary.

Books on Dewey’s educational theories:

My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and an E-Book version

The School and Society (1900) and an E-Book version

The Child and the Curriculum (1902)

 Democracy and Education (1916) and an E-Book version

 Experience and Education (1938) and an E-Book version