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John Dewey
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American philosopher and educator who taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia University. A founder of pragmatism and functional psychology, Dewey held that schools should cultivate reflective, experience-based inquiry in the service of a democratic society, and his laboratory school and writings shaped progressive education worldwide.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionCo-founded philosophical pragmatism and led the progressive education movement, arguing that learning proceeds through experience and reflective inquiry rather than rote transmission. 1 Notable WorkDemocracy and Education (1916) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Dewey's account of learning by experience is one of the direct foundations Kolb built his experiential learning model on, alongside Kurt Lewin and Jean Piaget.
Dewey taught at Teachers College from 1904 to his 1930 retirement; the institution was not his founding but his long academic home.
Theories and Approaches Developed
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Metaphysics Research LabDewey entry, opening paragraphQuote, Dewey entry, opening paragraph
Dewey's educational theories and experiments had global reach, his psychological theories influenced that growing science, and his writings about democratic theory and practice helped shape academic and practical debates for decades.
1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Metaphysics Research LabIn Category: ThinkersView the Source Simply Psychology
Simply PsychologyTheories and Approaches Developed: Learning by Doing, John Dewey on Education page, attributionQuote, Theories and Approaches Developed: Learning by Doing, John Dewey on Education page, attribution
Known as the father of progressive education, he argued that genuine learning is a continuous reconstruction of experience guided by reflective thinking.
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Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Teachers College, Columbia University, Teachers College, Columbia University, Notable facultyQuote, Associated With: Teachers College, Columbia University, Teachers College, Columbia University, Notable faculty
John Dewey...was a professor at Teachers College from 1904 until his retirement in 1930.
Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationTheories and Approaches Developed: Project-Based Learning, Project-based learning page, history sectionView the Source Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationTheories and Approaches Developed: Inquiry-Based Learning, Inquiry-based learning page, Dewey sectionView the Source Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: William Heard Kilpatrick, William Heard Kilpatrick page, Dewey sectionQuote, Associated With: William Heard Kilpatrick, William Heard Kilpatrick page, Dewey section
Dewey was Kilpatrick's most important professor and mentor while Kilpatrick was a student at Teachers College.
Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Experiential Learning, Experiential learning, Kolb's experiential learning model sectionView the Source Wikipedia: Progressive education
Wikimedia FoundationTheories and Approaches Developed: Progressivism (education), John Dewey sectionQuote, Theories and Approaches Developed: Progressivism (education), John Dewey section
Education according to John Dewey is the 'participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race' (Dewey, 1897, para. 1).
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