John Dewey

(1859-1952)

 

John Dewey (October 20, 1859–June 1, 1952)

was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas

have been influential in education and social reform.

 Dewey, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James,

 is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophy of

pragmatism and of functional psychology.

 He was a major representative of the progressive and progressive populist^[2]

philosophies of schooling during the first half of the 20th century in the USA.^[3]

Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education, he also wrote about many other topics, including experience, nature, art, logic, inquiry, democracy, and ethics.

In his advocacy of democracy, Dewey considered two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—as being major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality. Dewey asserted that complete democracy was to be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by ensuring that there exists a fully-formed public opinion, accomplished by effective communication among citizens, experts, and politicians, with the latter being accountable for the policies they adopt.

 

Bibliography

 

"My Pedagogic Creed", 1897

 

The School and Society, 1899

 

The Child and the Curriculum, 1902

 

The Theory of the Moral Life, 1908

 

Moral Principles in Education, 1909

 

The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, 1910

 

How We Think:

A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking

 to The Educative Process, 1910/1933

 

Democracy and Education:

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, 1916

 

Reconstruction in Philosophy, 1920

 

Human Nature and Conduct:

An Introduction to Social Psychology, 1922

 

Experience and Nature, 1925

 

The Public and its Problems, 1927

 

The Quest for Certainty:

 A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action, 1929

Gifford Lectures 

 

The Sources of a Science of Education, 1929

The Kappa Delta Pi Lecture Series

 

Individualism Old and New, 1930

 

Philosophy and Civilization, 1931

 

Ethics

second edition (with James Hayden Tufts), 1932

 

Art As Experience, 1934

 

A Common Faith, 1934

 

Liberalism and Social Action, 1935

 

Experience and Education, 1938

 

Logic:

The Theory of Inquiry, 1938

 

Freedom and Culture, 1939

 

Theory of Valuation, 1939

 

Knowing and the Known, 1949

 

Philosophy of Education:

 The Problems of Men and the Present State of Philosophy, 1946

 

Books on Dewey

 

The Philosophy of John Dewey:

Volume I The Structure of Experience

 by John J. McDermott, 1973

 

The Philosophy of John Dewey:

Volume II The Lived Experience

by John J. McDermott, 1973

 

The Life and Mind of John Dewey

by George Dykhuizen, 1973

 

The Moral Writings of John Dewey edited

by James Gouinlock, 1976

 

Dewey's New Logic:

A Reply to Russell

by Tom Burke, 1994