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 of philosophy, his ideas on education transformed...

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 emergence of public (and compulsory) schooling, the...

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 reason and universal education. Born on Oct. 20,...

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 philosopher. Educated at the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins,...

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 appointment at the University of Minnesota, he taught at the University of...

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 achievements. The full and startling range of his written...

John Dewey was born in 1859. He was a child of pre-industrial New England, born and raised in Burlington, Vermont, where his father was a storekeeper, and where Dewey himself would grow to maturity and eventually attend the University of Vermont at age...

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders...

Tears came to my eyes, and I started to giggle uncontrollably. I couldn't believe what I was watching. Where did anyone get such priceless film? Why hadn't I seen it before? I was attending the 1999 Kappa Delta Pi Biennial Convocation to present...

Jay Martin. The Education of John Dewey. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. John Dewey (1859-1952) was, perhaps, the most influential thinker with respect to the development of educational philosophy in the twentieth century. His educational ideal combined notions of philosophical pragmatism; the...

The Searles Castle has towered over this Berkshire town for 120 years, its seven turrets and blue dolomite exterior creating a fortress at the end of Main Street. It has been walled off from the public as a home to the uber-rich and as a...

10 a.m. The JPMorgan Chase Foundation will present $20,000 to fund a Harlem student's trip to Yellowstone National Park at the Future Leaders Institute Charter School, 134 West 122nd Street, between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard. 10:15 a.m. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz...

In the following essay, Hendley presents a history of Dewey's Laboratory School, and focuses on Dewey's philosophical and educational goals for the school.

In the following essay, Brickman—a professor of Educational History and Comparative Education—defends his conclusion that Dewey's commentaries on politics and society form a cohesive and consistent whole.

In the following essay, Murphy declares that Dewey's philosophical methods are unsound because they do not adopt scientific or practical methodology.

This essay 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 broken and is progressive education the answer?