ABSTRACT

Our response assesses the prospects and possibilities of Participatory Simulations from the perspective of an expanded understanding of the two Deweyan principles used to evaluate any educational experience. Vanessa Colella cites from Chapter 3 of John Dewey’s (1938/1988) Experience and Education: “Continuity and interaction in their active union with each other provide the measure of the educative significance and value of an experience” (p. 26). Our response largely confines itself to Chapter 3 and 4 of that work.