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John Dewey

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

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. His foreign consultancies included two stints at the Univ. of Beijing and a report on the reorganization of the schools of Turkey. Dewey's original philosophy, called instrumentalism, bears a relationship to the utilitarian and pragmatic schools of thought. Instrumentalism holds that the various modes... Read more

Dewey, John 1859-1952
DEWEY, JOHN 1859-1952 Educational philosopher and professor Pioneer John Dewey was an innovator in the fields of education...theorist in the twentieth century. Sources: John Dewey, Experience and Nature (Chicago: Open Court... Read more

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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... Read more

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