John Dewey: The significance of his work for educators

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John Dewey The significance of his work for
educators

• By Cheryl Davidson

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About John Dewey

• American Philosopher
• Psychologist
• Educational Reformer Progressive Education
• One of the founders of Pragmatism
• Epistemology

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Who was John Dewey?
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As a Philosopher

• Child-centered
• Professor at Columbia University
• Theory of knowledge to education How We Think
  (1910) and Democracy and Education (1916)

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John Deweys philosophies
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As a Psychologist

• Student at John Hopkins University
• George Sylvester Morris
• dissertation on Kantian psychology
• University of Michigan
• Father of functional psychology

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As an Educational Reformer

• University of Chicago educational experiments
• "My Pedagogic Creed" (1887), The School and
  Society (1900), and The Child and the Curriculum
  (1902)
• Columbia University

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As an Educational Reformer cont

• Educational Progressivism
• Become aware of the problem.
• Define the problem.
• Propose hypotheses to solve it.
• Evaluate the consequences of the hypotheses from
  past experience.
• Test the most likely solution.

Center for Dewey Studies
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Pragmatism
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• Charles Sanders Peirce and William James
• Knowledge and Metaphysics
• Theory of Knowledge (Epistemology)

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Epistemology
Click on the green Put it all together Defining
belief Look at Venn Diagram (1/3 down page)

• The study of nature and knowledge (truth and
  belief-justification)
• Theory of Justification or Theory of Knowledge
• Theory of Truth

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As you can see, John Dewey spent many of his
later years publishing works of his knowledge.
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Work Cited

• Garrison, Jim (1999,November 10). John Dewey.
  Retrieved June 19, 2006, Web site
  http//www.vusst.hr/ENCYCLOPAEDIA/john_dewey.htm
• Neill, James (2005, January 25). John Dewey
  Philosopy of Education. Retrieved June 25, 2006,
  Web site http//www.wilderdom.com/experiential/Jo
  hnDeweyPhilosophyEducation.html
• Smith, Mark (1997, May 8). John Dewey. Retrieved
  June 20, 2006, Web site http//www.infed.org/thin
  kers/et-dewey.htm
• Shook, John (1998). John Dewey, American
  Pragmatist. Retrieved June 20, 2006, Web site
  http//dewey.pragmatism.org/

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Work Cited Continued

1. Field, Richard (2006). John Dewey (1859-1952).
   Retrieved June 25, 2006, Web site
   http//www.iep.utm.edu/d/dewey.htm
2. Wikipedia, (2006). Epistomology. Retrieved June
   20, 2006, Web site http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E
   pistemology