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John Dewey
John Dewey 1859-1952, American philosopher and educator, b. Burlington, Vt., grad. Univ. of Vermont, 1879, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1884. He taught at the universities of Minnesota (1888-89), Michigan (1884-88, 1889-94), and Chicago (1894-1904) and at Columbia from 1904 until his retirement in 1930. Hi... Read more
William Heard Kilpatrick
William Heard Kilpatrick , 1871-1965, American philosopher, b. White Plains, Ga., grad. Mercer College, 1891, Ph.D. Columbia, 1912, and studied at Johns Hopkins Univ. He taught at Teachers College, Columbia, from 1909, becoming professor of the philosophy of education in 1918; he retired in 1938. Ac... Read more
naturalism
naturalism in philosophy, a position that attempts to explain all phenomena and account for all values by means of strictly natural (as opposed to supernatural) categories. The particular meaning of naturalism varies with what is opposed to it. It is usually considered the opposite of idealism , i... Read more
Randolph Silliman Bourne
Randolph Silliman Bourne , 1886-1918, American author, b. Bloomfield, N.J., grad. Columbia Univ., 1912. His critical examination of the American way of life established him as a spokesman for his generation. The books he wrote on progressive education, The Gary Schools (1916) and Education and Li... Read more
Hu Shih
Hu Shih , 1891-1962, Chinese philosopher and essayist, leading liberal intellectual in the May Fourth Movement (1917-23). He studied under John Dewey at Columbia Univ., becoming a lifelong advocate of pragmatic evolutionary change. While professor of philosophy at Beijing Univ., he wrote for the i... Read more
Thomas Hill Green
Thomas Hill Green 1836-82, English idealist philosopher. Educated at Oxford, he was associated with the university all his life. He was professor of moral philosophy there from 1878 until his death. In his Introduction to Hume's Treatise on Human Nature (1874), Green struck a heavy blow at tradit... Read more
May Fourth Movement
May Fourth Movement (1919), first mass movement in modern Chinese history. On May 4, about 5,000 university students in Beijing protested the Versailles Conference (Apr. 28, 1919) awarding Japan the former German leasehold of Jiaozhou, Shandong prov. Demonstrations and strikes spread to Shanghai, a... Read more
George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead , 1863-1931, American philosopher and psychologist, b. South Hadley, Mass., grad. Oberlin, 1883, and Harvard, 1888, and studied in Leipzig and Berlin. He taught at the Univ. of Chicago from 1894 until his death. The work of John Dewey and of Mead may be regarded as complementary.... Read more
Wesley Clair Mitchell
Wesley Clair Mitchell 1874-1948, American economist, b. Rushville, Ill. He received his Ph.D. (1899) from the Univ. of Chicago, where he studied under Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey, and he taught at several institutions, including the Univ. of California, Columbia, and the New School for Social R... Read more
Ernest Nagel
Ernest Nagel 1901-85, American philosopher, b. Nové Město (now in the Czech Republic), grad. College of the City of New York, 1923, and Columbia (Ph.D., 1930). His family emigrated to the United States in 1911. He joined (1931) the philosophy faculty of Columbia, where he became (1955) ... Read more

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Dewey, John
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography John Dewey Born: October 20, 1859 Burlington, Vermont...the first half of the twentieth century, John Dewey was one of America's most famous teachers...October 20, 1859, in Burlington, Vermont, John Dewey was the third of Archibald Dewey and Lucina...
John Dewey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography John Dewey During the first half of the 20th century, John Dewey (1859-1952) was America's most famous...Oct. 20, 1859, in Burlington, Vt., John Dewey came of old New England stock. His father...
George Dewey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...outbreak of World War I in 1914, Dewey suffered a stroke that removed...The Autobiography of George Dewey covers his career to 1899...American War (2 vols., 1911). John A. S. Grenville and George...information on Manila and on Dewey's work with the General Board...
Dewey, John (1859–1952)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education DEWEY, JOHN (1859 – 1952) Throughout the United States and the world at large, the name of John Dewey has become synonymous with the Progressive education movement. Dewey has...
Dewey, John (1859–1952)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Dewey, John (1859 – 1952) America's foremost philosopher of education, John Dewey grew up in rural Vermont, earned his doctorate at The Johns Hopkins University...
Thomas Edmund Dewey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...s record as a war leader and Dewey's lack of experience in international...Harry Truman in 1948 — Dewey refused to tax himself, made only...suggestion of State Department adviser John Foster Dulles, Dewey visited 17 countries in the Pacific...
Dewey, George
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History Dewey, George (1837–1917), American admiral and popular naval hero.Dewey was born in Montpelier, Vermont, in 1837 and...command of the sloops Pensacola and Narragansett. Dewey spent the 1890s in Washington as chief of the...
James Dewey Watson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography James Dewey Watson The American biologist James Dewey Watson (born 1928) was a discoverer of the double-helical...assumed full-time leadership of Cold Spring Harbor. With John Tooze and David Kurtz, Watson wrote The Molecular Biology...
Davis, Miles Dewey
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Davis, Miles Dewey (1926–91) US jazz trumpeter, one of the most influential...reflective Birth of the Cool (1949), and played with the saxophonist John Coltrane on the seminal Kind of Blue (1959). During the late 1960s...
Progressive Education
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...participation in a democratic society. John Dewey (1859 – 1952), who would...create a "more lovely society." Dewey's emphasis on the importance of...however, was not alone the work of John Dewey. To be sure, Dewey's attraction...

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Dewey, John
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology Dewey, John (1859–1952) Over a long life spanning nearly a century, Dewey was one of America's leading philosophers...classical European and essentialist philosophy, Dewey stressed the importance of linking theories...
Pragmatism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...University of Chicago was led by John Dewey, who later taught at Columbia...pragmatism was under way when Dewey retired from teaching in...including Ernest Nagel, John Herman Randall, and Herbert...Columbia for graduate study; Dewey's student Sidney Hook...
New Republic, The
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...material. New York City icons such as the philosopher John Dewey and the historian Charles A. Beard quickly took advantage...found a new political focus with the election of President John F. Kennedy in 1960, concentrating particularly on civil...
Flett, John Smith
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Flett, John Smith ( b . Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland...generally for the formulation, with Henry Dewey, of the spilite suite, a worldwide type...241 – 248, written with H. Dewey; “ Hornfelses from Kenidjack...
She Done Him Wrong
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...screenplay: Mae West with Harvey Thew and John Bright (some sources do not list West...Kelly ); Tammany Young (Chuck Connors ); Dewey Robinson (Spider Kane ); Grace La Rue (Frances ). Publications Books: Baxter, John, Hollywood in the Thirties, Cranbury...
Sullivan's Travels
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...screenplay: Preston Sturges; photography: John Seitz; editor: Stuart Gilmore; art directors...Farciot Edouart. Cast: Joel McCrea (John L. Sullivan ); Veronica Lake (The Girl...Harry Tyler (R.R. information clerk ); Dewey Robinson (Sheriff ); Madame Sul-te...
Xala
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Coleman, J., in New Statesman (London), 5 November 1976. Dewey, L., in Film (London), December 1976. Forbes, Jill...in Film Comment (New York), July-August 1993. Mowitt, John, "Sembène Ousmane's Xala : Postcoloniality and...
American Association of University Professors
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...This alarmed academics across the country, including Johns Hopkins philosopher Arthur O. Love-joy. In 1915 he and John Dewey held a meeting at Johns Hopkins in order to establish an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of university...
Atheism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...have intersected dynamically with the broader tradition of American free thought. Individuals such as Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Robert G. Ingersoll, Abner Kneeland, and Joseph Lewis (some of whom can be defined as atheists; others, not...
Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...precise and accessible advice and a new, more flexible approach to discipline, derived from the educational theory of John Dewey and the psychology of Sigmund Freud. What Reverend Norman Vincent Peale labeled "permissive" child-rearing came...

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John Dewey and the Decline of American Education
Magazine article from: Freeman; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; John Dewey and the Decline of American Education by...Stoops Henry Edmondson describes his book John Dewey and the Decline of American Education as...years. Anyone who attempts to write about John Dewey's ideas is immediately presented with...
John Dewey at the beach
Magazine article from: Kappa Delta Pi Record; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the evening, though, was the celebration of John Dewey-and the images before me. John Dewey at the Beach The film started to roll. Black...all of a sudden, I got it. I was watching John Dewey at the beach. John Dewey, education's foremost...
John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism.
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 8/18/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...influential American philosopher, John Dewey. I say "almost" because the reservations Ryan winds up expressing about Dewey's project, in a charmingly muted...robustly and, if one does that, Dewey comes off a bit less well. Let...
John Dewey: philosopher of technology.
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; John Dewey (1859-1952) was widely known among the...Philosopher." Among his fellow academics, Dewey was also known as heir to the pragmatism...closest colleagues, however, few during Dewey's lifetime seemed to notice that he was...
Dewey: back to the future.(John Dewey seen as part of the intellectual heritage of institutional economics)
Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...tradition associated with Clarence Ayres, claims John Dewey as an important part of its intellectual heritage...rely entirely on Ayres' interpretation of Dewey. The following discussion uses some of Dewey's views on technology and science as an entry...
John Dewey: America's Philosopher of Democracy. & The Political Philosophy of John Dewey.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; John Dewey: America's Philosopher of Democracy...95 paper. The Political Philosophy of John Dewey. By Terry Hoy. Westport, CT: Praeger...Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, and John Dewey. To many the appropriateness of conferring...
John Dewey in China: To Teach and To Learn
Magazine article from: The China Journal; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; John Dewey in China: To Teach and To Learn, by Iessica Ching-Sze Wang. Albany...of New York Press, 2007. viii + 152 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover). John Dewey's sojourn in China from 1919 to 1921 was a quintessential moment in Chinese...
John Dewey's eloquent citizen: communication, judgment, and postmodern capitalism.
Magazine article from: Argumentation and Advocacy; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...to offer the rhetorician than does John Dewey. (Burks, 1968) The quest for...make us shudder (Deleuze, 1995). John Dewey provides a fertile point of departure...Christopher Johnstone harnessed John Dewey's thought on "aesthetics, ethics...
John Dewey redux.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...pages of his recent biography of John Dewey, Jay Martin writes: "Compared...Dykhuizen's The Life and Mind of John Dewey (1973) for being Dewey's only...thought: Steven C. Rockefeller's John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic...
Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality. (Book reviews: summaries and comments).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; SHOOK, John R. Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality. Nashville...argument runs squarely against the grain of mainstream Dewey scholarship, which holds generally that Dewey's early work exhibits a fairly sharp break with the...