Dewey, John (1859-1942)
A native of Burlington, Vermont, John Dewey received his B.A. from the University of Vermont in 1879 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1884. Except for a brief app...
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Dewey, John
Born in Burlington, Vermont, on October 20, John Dewey (1859–1952) lived a long and productive life as a psychologist, social activist, public intellectual, educator, and philosophe...
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Dewey, John(1859–1952)
The American philosopher, educator, and social critic John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont. A shy youth, he enjoyed reading books and was a good but not a brilliant...
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Dewey, John [addendum]
John Dewey has undergone an extraordinary renaissance of scholarly and public concern with his thought. Dewey (1859–1952) was encyclopedic in both his interests and achie...
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During the first half of the 20th century, John Dewey (1859-1952) was America's most famous exponent of a pragmatic philosophy that celebrated the traditional values of democracy and the efficacy of r...
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During the ninety-three years of John Dewey's long life, the United States experienced the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, industrialization, mass immigration, the emer...
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During his long life John Dewey contributed in profound and original ways to every field of academic philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and logic. Outside...
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This paper describes the life and impact of John Dewey. It will also help address a question that has prompted public discussion for the last 100 years: Is the traditional method of education brok...
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