I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and children playing together on playgrounds. This is especially true ...

The theory of inquiry At the centre of this approach ... communities founded on principles of democratic participation. John Dewey officially retired in 1930, but continued to teach as Professor ...

I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and children playing together on playgrounds. This is especially true ...

Essence of his philosophy is indicated in the proverb: “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” Truth, to John Dewey, is not fixed or absolute, changes as conditions change. And he ...

From Thomas Alexander’s 1987 book John Dewey’s Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature: “Democracy for Dewey is not a name for a special political institution so much as one for such a ...

EUROPEAN domination of American educational theory ended with the nineteenth century. Professor John Dewey, long of I Columbia University but then of the University of Chicago, published The ...

If philosophy—at least in one of its important ... and Herbert Spencer. Nevertheless, John Dewey’s influence upon primary and secondary education in America is not easily over-estimated.

Professor Judy Whipps talks about the conditions in Chicago during the 1890s, the impact it had on Jane Addams and the philosophy and activism of Jane Addams and John Dewey. Jane Addams and John ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 26, No. 2 (2001), pp. 183-200 (18 pages) In this article, I have examined Dewey's concept of the student through the lens of his ...

John Capps received his Ph.D from Northwestern University in 1997. The focus of his research is within epistemology and the philosophy of science, where he has been influenced by the work of classical ...