Why revisit John Dewey’s philosophy on education and democracy now? I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and ...

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 School ...

Who is Known as the 'America's Philosopher of Democracy'? Learn about the title of America’s Philosopher of Democracy, ...

RALEIGH — Just about everyone has an opinion about how to improve education, and it’s usually an opinion passionately held and forcefully argued. It’s not hard to see why. After all, schools are the ...

Many of us in higher education have long grappled with the stunning dichotomy of American education: Our colleges and universities are acknowledged as the most advanced in the world, and yet our ...

Dewey's maternal grandfather was a member of the Legislature, and his mother's cousin was president of UVM. Lucina Dewey pushed her sons to follow in those footsteps. She also worked to supplement the ...

John Dewey, the progressive education pioneer known as 'America's philosopher of democracy,' revolutionized learning through ...

Based on original sources, this book tells the full story of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters, John Dewey. During his lifetime ...

Unruffled by blasts from Buenos Aires’ Luna Park and the University of Chicago’s Midway, unshaken by waverings and defections in the ranks of his own followers. John Dewey at 84 stands rock-firm in ...

Dewey has been to our age what Aristotle was to the later Middle Ages, not a philosopher, but the philosopher, added historian Hilda Neatby. The philosopher began his education in Burlington public ...