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	John Dewey [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859, the third of four sons born to Archibald Sprague Dewey and Lucina Artemesia Rich of Burlington, Vermont.
		Dewey later began to suspect that the issues surrounding the conditions of truth, as well as knowledge, were hopelessly obscured by the accretion of traditional, and in his view misguided, meanings to the terms, resulting in confusing ambiguity.
		Dewey begins with the observation that the world as we experience it both individually and collectively is an admixture of the precarious, the transitory and contingent aspect of things, and the stable, the patterned regularity of natural processes that allows for prediction and human intervention.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/d/dewey.htm (5925 words)

	John Dewey - MSN Encarta
		Born in Burlington, Vermont, Dewey received a B.A. degree from the University of Vermont in 1879 and a Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1884.
		Dewey’s theories have often been misinterpreted by the advocates of so-called progressive education; although Dewey opposed authoritarian methods, he did not advocate lack of guidance and control.
		Dewey followed the American philosopher and psychologist William James as a leader of the pragmatic movement in philosophy; Dewey’s own philosophy, called either instrumentalism or experimentalism, stems from the pragmatism of James.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566854/John_Dewey.html (474 words)

	The Philosophy of John Dewey
		John Dewey (1859-1952) (picture) was a philosopher, psychologist, and educator.
		Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont on October 20, 1859, the son of a grocer.
		Dewey regarded philosophy as the criticism of those socially important beliefs which are part and parcel of the social and cultural life of human communities.
	radicalacademy.com /phildewey.htm (2233 words)

	John Dewey's participatory philosophy of education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dewey's curriculum theory is occupied with three broader, crucial aspects of educational theory, namely: the anthropological, psychological and societal aspects of education.
		Finally, Dewey's view on child growth and education is illustrated by a description of his thoughts on children's play, and by an excursion to the kindergarten or 'sub-primary' department of his laboratory school.
		It is concluded that Dewey emerges from this debate with a 'precurricular' view of the education of the young child and with powerful arguments for continuity between informal and formal education.
	www.socsci.kun.nl /ped/whp/histeduc/misc/dewey01.html (2469 words)

	John Dewey
		Dewey was just beginning his work in the 1890s, but his lifetime of intellectual accomplishments (40 books and over 700 articles, in addition to countless letters, lectures, and other published works) continue to play an influential role in many fields of knowledge.
		Johns Hopkins was one of the first American universities to offer graduate instruction that was considered comparable to the European universities, with emphasis on original scholarly research as an expectation for graduate students as well as faculty members.
		Dewey's department was intended to bring together philosophy, psychology, and the study of pedagogy, focusing on relationships between elementary and secondary school teachers and university educators.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/dewey/dewey.html (1456 words)

	John Dewey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont of modest family origins.
		Dewey is one of the three central figures in American pragmatism, along with Charles Sanders Peirce, who coined the term, and William James, who popularized it—though Dewey did not identify himself as a pragmatist per se, and instead referred to his philosophy as "instrumentalism".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Dewey (3008 words)

	Dewey, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Dewey’s original philosophy, called instrumentalism, bears a relationship to the utilitarian and pragmatic schools of thought.
		Dewey conceived of democracy as a primary ethical value, and he did much to formulate working principles for a democratic and industrial society.
		Dewey actively participated in movements to forward social welfare and woman’s suffrage, protect academic freedom, and effect political reform.
	www.bartleby.com /65/de/Dewey-Jo.html (310 words)

	UM SOE: Thought and Action: John Dewey - Philosophy Instructor
		John Dewey arrived in Ann Arbor during the fall of 1884 as a twenty-four year-old philosophy instructor deeply rooted in philosophical idealism.
		Among the first actions taken by Morris was arranging to hire his former pupil John Dewey in July 1884 for a one-year appointment as an instructor in philosophy at a salary of $900.
		According to Dewey, mental evolution occurred through an enlargement of that environment in "organic relation with the spiritual universe."19 His presentations and writings during this period were beginning to incorporate elements of science and experimental psychology but still remained rooted in religious belief.
	www.soe.umich.edu /dewey/philosophyinstructor/index.html (1520 words)

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		John Dewey was an American Philosopher who developed a systematic pragmatism addressing the central issues of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics, was a brilliant educational theorist, a leading commentator for popular magazines, and a political activist for such causes as women's suffrage and the unionization of teachers.
		Dewey lists four as the most marked: the habits of language, manners, good taste and esthetic appreciation, and deeper standards of judgements of value (which is a fusion of the prior two).
		Dewey mentions a point in Chapter 6, which addresses briefly the relation of the old habits and practices of the older members and the young's vibrant thought.
	personal.ecu.edu /mccartyr/american/leap/dewey.htm (1544 words)

	Annotated Reading List - Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although Dewey was suspicious of the term value, because of the tendency of philosophers to reify the qualities of events and objects, he did write a great deal about the activity of valuation.
		Dewey argues that such judgments are not static, as some have suggested, but instead demand a course of action.
		Dewey here underscores his view that the meaning of an object often changes as it becomes involved in a practical judgment.
	www.siu.edu /~deweyctr/a_short_annotated_reading_list.htm (1636 words)

	John Dewey and informal education
		Dewey's philosophical pragmatism, concern with interaction, reflection and experience, and interest in community and democracy, were brought together to form a highly suggestive educative form.
		John Dewey is often misrepresented - and wrongly associated with child-centred education.
		However, John Dewey's influence can be seen in many of the writers that have influenced the development of informal education over the same period.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/et-dewey.htm (648 words)

	Craig A. Cunningham's Web Site
		Dewey began his career as a Hegelian idealist, but gradually move away from idealism and adopted an "experimentalism" which stressed the continuity of human thought and natural conditions, and which emphasized the ways in which human intelligence may be applied, through inquiry, to the solution of real problems.
		Indeed, Dewey was quite explicit in his claim that "Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men." ("The Need for a Recovery in Philosophy," 1917; MW 10:42)
		Center for Dewey Studies, which owns the rights to all of Dewey's works (and has published a complete set), and is currently putting together a compendium of Dewey's letters.
	cuip.uchicago.edu /~cac/dewey.htm (3678 words)

	20th WCP: Constructivism, Educational Research, and John Dewey
		Dewey not only argues that in order to accomplish "agreement in action" it is necessary to "come to likeness of attitude, or to agreement as to proper diversity of attitude" (1911, MW6, p.17).
		Dewey’s work is, on the one hand, directed against traditional epistemological positions, of idealist and realist origins alike.
		Dewey focusses on a critique of their common foundations, viz the split between object and subject, reality and knowledge, world and consciousness.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Amer/AmerVand.htm (2810 words)

	john dewey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher and educator whose writings and teachings have had a profound influence on education in the United States.
		Dewey's philosophy of education, instrumentalism (also called pragmatism), focused on learning-by-doing rather than rote learning and dogmatic instruction, the current practice of his day.
		Dewey wrote the introductions to three of Alexander's books and referred to his experience a number of times in his own writings - although Alexander's influence on Dewey is often ignored by Dewey scholars.
	johndewey.netfirms.com (1091 words)

	JOHN DEWEY: A COMMON FAITH
		John Dewey's impact upon affairs, upon public education, the sciences, philosophy, religion, the enterprises of politics, of business, of labor, has been so pervasive and penetrating that men and women in the most various walks and ways will continue to think and act, unknowingly when not knowingly, under the persisting influence of his initiating genius.
		John Dewey was among the greatest of those who persisted in laboring to win better and better means of articulating man's hunger for comradeship in making individual lives and the lives of individuals in togetherness as joyous and worthy as possible.
		John Dewey is to be classed among those men who have made philosophic thought relevant to the needs of their own day.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/dewey.html (1953 words)

	John Dewey
		John Dewey, who was to become one of the most powerful influences on educational thought in the 20th Century, was born in the town of Burlington, Vermont, in 1859.
		Dewey's approach was not a matter of whim or of arbitrary convictions about school design but a central feature of his philosophy.
		It is one of the difficulties that Dewey presents to anyone who would present a short précis of his career that he lived to the age of 93: active to the end - he married for the second time and started a second family at the age of 87.
	www.ul.ie /~philos/vol1/dewey.html (3324 words)

	John Dewey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Dewey was, during the first half of the 20th century, America's most prominent philosopher.
		Dewey was what I call a "harlequin" among philosophers, a complete thinker whose formulations touched on every area of importance within philosophy and who was sensitive to contemporary currents in the sciences, the arts, politics, and literature.
		The most pressing issue that dominated Dewey's life, work, and teaching was the desire to develop a viable democratic community for the present.
	www.siena.edu /boisvert/Dewey.htm (738 words)

	John Dewey Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		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.
		At Johns Hopkins in 1882 Dewey studied with George S. Morris, who was on leave as chairman of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan.
		Dewey rapidly shed Hegelianism in favor of "instrumentalism," a position that holds that thinking is an activity which, at its best, is directed toward resolving problems rather than creating abstract metaphysical systems.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-dewey (1454 words)

	John Dewey
		Dewey's efforts at defining pragmatism were essentially an effort to reconcile the fallibility of human perspective in relation to objective reality.
		Dewey was part of the Progressive movement in education; he pushed for experimental approaches in the classroom.
		While the criticisms have remained through the decades, it is unlikely that the breakdown in classroom structure is the fault of Dewey: Dewey's writing may talk about freedom for students, but it is also just as full of passage admonishing teachers to "direct" and "steer" students in the proper directions.
	johndewey.shawnolson.net (410 words)

	John Dewey
		Dewey ranks with the greatest thinkers of this or any age on the subjects of pedagogy, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, philosophy of science, and social and political theory.
		Dewey's stature is assured as one of the 20th Century's premier philosophers, along with James, Bradley, Husserl, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Carnap, and Quine.
		The journal is co-sponsored by the John Dewey Society, the Philosophy of Education Society, and the Colleges of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign and the University of Illinois, Chicago.
	dewey.pragmatism.org (1301 words)

	SCHOOL: The Story of American Public Education
		Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, and attended local schools and the University of Vermont, eventually earning a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.
		While Dewey’s accomplishments as a philosopher gained him posts at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago and Columbia University, his educational theories broke new ground and continue to wield influence at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
		The relevance of Dewey’s ideas to industrial and urban growth made his theories prominent in his lifetime, and the recurring notions of child-centered learning formed the basis of progressive education, enjoying continued popularity today.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/publicschool/innovators/dewey.html (182 words)

	John Dewey 1896
		Dewey illustrates his case by carefully considering the deficiencies of the reflex arc account of a child's first and subsequent encounters with a candle-flame (see fig 3).
		That intentional psychical unit, Dewey writes, is "transformed" after the child's finger is burned (while the underlying physiological circuit remains the same -and therefore is not explanatory in either case but especially in the second one).
		Dewey's Experience and Nature (1925), had already argued that the essence of language should not be sought in verbal expression, or syntax, but in the mutual assistance between human partners.
	www.comnet.ca /~pballan/Dewey.htm (3523 words)

	Dewey
		Educated in his native Vermont and at Johns Hopkins University, John Dewey enjoyed a lengthy career as an educator, psychologist, and philosopher.
		Drawn from an idealist background by the pragmatist influence of Peirce and James, Dewey became an outstanding exponent of philosophical naturalism.
		The tentative character of scientific inquiry makes Dewey's epistemology thoroughly fallibilistic: he granted that the results of this process are always open to criticism and revision, so that nothing is ever finally and absolutely true.
	www.philosophypages.com /ph/dewe.htm (287 words)

	Amazon.com: Experience And Education: Books: John Dewey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Unfortunately, as I read John Dewey's Experience & Education I constantly needed to remind myself that Dewey understood what education should be back in the late 1930s, and the "new" education, contemporary or "progressive" as he often referred to it reflects a new-fangled educational system that by today's standards would seem old fashioned.
		Dewey suggests that educational experiences are vital as some people with little schooling have been given the "precious gift of the ability to learn from the experiences they have (had)", and certainly not all educational experiences occurred in the schoolroom.
		Dewey's 'Experience and Education' is a classic text, written by one of greater education expert all over the world and times.
	www.amazon.com /Experience-Education-John-Dewey/dp/0684838281 (2534 words)

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