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John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thought has been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism (along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James), the father of functional psychology, and a leading representative of the progressive movement in U.S. education during the first half of the 20th century. He was also a contributing editor of the Encyclopeadia for Unified Science, a project of the logical empiricists organised by Otto Neurath.
Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont of modest family origins. He received his PhD from the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in 1884. From 1904, he was professor of philosophy at Columbia University. Dewey's most significant writings were "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology" (1896), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work; Human Nature and Conduct (1922), a study of the role of habit in human behavior; The Public and its Problems (1927), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public (1925); Experience and Nature (1929), Dewey's most "metaphysical" statement; Art as Experience (1934), Dewey's major work on aesthetics; A Common Faith (1934), a humanistic study of religion; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (1938), an examination of Dewey's unusual conception of logic; and Freedom and Culture (1939), a political work examining the roots of fascism. While each of these works focuses upon one particular philosophical theme, Dewey wove in all of his major themes into everything he wrote.
Educational philosophy
As can be seen in his Democracy and Education Dewey attempts to at once synthesize, criticize, and expand upon the democratic or proto-democratic educational philosophies of Rousseau and Plato. He saw Rousseau's as overemphasizing the individual and Plato's as overemphasizing the society in which the individual lived. For Dewey, this distinction was by and large a false one; like Vygotsky, he viewed the mind and its formation as communal process. Thus the individual is only a meaningful concept when regarded as an inextricable part of his or her society, and the society has no meaning apart from its realization in the lives of its individual members. However, as evidenced in his later Experience and Nature Dewey recognizes the importance of the subjective experience of individual people in introducing revolutionary new ideas. More on [ John Dewey ]
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â To me faith means not worrying. - John Dewey
Canyn (Canyn Flynn) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:31:31 -0000
❀ To me faith means not worrying. - John Dewey
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. (John Dewey)
celebrate_life (Celebrate Life) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:02:01 -0000
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. (John Dewey)
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. - John Dewey
Belts4Women (Kenisha Tracy) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:00:54 -0000
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. - John Dewey
RT @doktordolan: Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey
JayMichaels1 (Jay Michaels) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:37:36 -0000
RT @doktordolan: Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey
John Dewey's Democracy and Education is not the most exciting holiday reading, but I am making my way through it.
intrepidteacher (Jabiz Raisdana) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:13:40 -0000
John Dewey's Democracy and Education is not the most exciting holiday reading, but I am making my way through it.
RT @SaganSchools Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey
Hadel (Hadel S. Ma'ayeh) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:04:02 -0000
RT @SaganSchools Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey
Center for Dewey Studies - The Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
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Democracy and Education, by John Dewey - Complete text of the book in HTML format.
Encyclopedia of Informal Education: John Dewey - Brief biography, partial bibliography, and links.
Imperialism Is Easy, by John Dewey - Essay by John Dewey published in The New Republic (March 23, 1927), critical of U.S. involvement in Mexico.
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Impressions of Soviet Russia, by John Dewey - Complete text of the first six chapters of Dewey’s book, covering Dewey’s visit to Soviet Russia in 1928.
Inquiry into charges against Trotsky - A complete transcription of the famous commission Dewey chaired in 1937, held in Mexico: “The Case of Leon Trotsky, Report of hearings by the Preliminary Commission of Inquiry into the charges made against him in the Moscow trials.”
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John Dewey - Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education article by Jim Garrison.
John Dewey and F. Matthias Alexander - Information and links claiming an influence of the Alexander Technique on John Dewey.
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John Dewey and the F. M. Alexander Technique - Texts of Dewey’s writings about the Alexander Technique.
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John Dewey Email Discussion List - Called Dewey-L, this forum is open to anyone interested in Dewey’s philosophy.
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John Dewey Papers - 24 cubic feet of manuscripts at Southern Illinois Univerity Carbondale, Special Collections Library.
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John Dewey Society - Promotes study of Dewey’s ideas on democracy, education, and philosophy.
John Dewey: Philosophy of Education - An introduction to Dewey’s philosophy of education. Includes a summary of his book Experience and Education.
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John Dewey: American Pragmatic Philosopher - Information and links regarding American pragmatic philosopher John Dewey.
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My Pedagogic Creed, by John Dewey - Early essay by John Dewey outlining his theory of education. Progressive education in brief.
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On Posture - John Dewey describes F.M. Alexander’s approach to posture.
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Posture Commands: Why They Don’t Work - F.M. Alexander’s analysis of the futility of telling someone to stand up straight, as told by John Dewey based on his experience with the Alexander Technique.
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Review of Dewey’s: The Quest for Certainty - A book review of Dewey’s The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action (1929), by Alex Scott.
Text of books and articles by John Dewey - Complete texts of the books: School and Society (1907,1915), How We Think (1910), The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and other Essays (1910), Essays in Experimental Logic (1916). And 17 articles from 1886 to 1903.
Text of books by John Dewey - Democracy and Education (first 14 chapters), My Pedagogic Creed, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology.
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The Pragmatism Cybrary - A research resource offering information on famous pragmatists, directories of centers and societies, philosophy lists, conferences, and publications.
The Unknown Dewey - The philosophy of John Dewey, with emphasis on its relation to the Alexander Technique.
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