John Dewey

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Bibliography

• www.Muskingum.edu
• www.thefamouspeople.com
• www.Dewey.pragmatism.org
• www.brocku.ca
• http://psychology.about.com/
• Bibliography.com
• www.answers.com

Education & Professional Bakround

John Dewey

Childhood & Family Backround

Education & Professional Backround

John Dewey was born on October 20th in Burlington, Vermont in 1859. His parents were Archibald Sprague Dewey and Lucina Artemesia Rich. John had 3 siblings all brothers and he is the third child in the family, but his oldest brother passed away. He was raised to be religious, and to take pride in his education. John and his brothers all went to public schools, grew up learning about evolution. He was married 2 times, his first wife Alice Chipman which he had six children with, He married again to Roberta Lowitz Grant.

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Impact on education

• He graduated from high school at the age of fifteen
• Graduated from the university of Vermont, was a high school teacher for 3 years in oil city in Pennsylvania.
• Spent a year at John Hopkins University in America's first psychology lab, and received his Ph.D.
• Then taught at the University of Michigan for nearly a decade.
• In 1894 he accepted a position as the chairman of the department of philosophy, psychology and pedagogy at the University of Chicago.
• Helped establish the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
• after leaving the university of Chicago, he became a professor of philosophy at Columbia University from 1904 until retirement in 1930.

The "father of modern education", His idea was that children came to school to do things and live in a community which gave them real, guided experiences which fostered their capacity to contribute to society. Dewey believed that students should be involved in real-life tasks and challenges. He made it very important for teachers to understand what he wanted to achieve.

Accomplishments & Beliefs

• He was American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic and political activist.
• Chairman of the department of philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy at the University of Chicago.
• was elected president of the American Psychological Association, and in 1905 he became president of the American Philosophical Association.
• He believed and supported women's suffrage, the progression of education, educator's rights, the Humanistic movement, and world peace.
• he developed ideas of evolutionary democracy and evolutionary education and evolutionary law.
• one of the founders of pragmatism

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"Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself."