Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 John Dewey: The significance of his work for educators By Cheryl Davidson

Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 About John Dewey American Philosopher Psychologist Educational Reformer: Progressive Education One of the founders of Pragmatism Epistemology

Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 Who was John Dewey? Click on John Dewey to find out

Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 As a Philosopher Child-centered Professor at Columbia University Theory of knowledge to education: How We Think (1910) and Democracy and Education (1916) Click on this graphic to find more summaries of John Dewey’s philosophies

Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 As a Psychologist Student at John Hopkins University George Sylvester Morris dissertation on Kantian psychology University of Michigan Father of functional psychology

Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 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

Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 As an Educational Reformer con’t Educational Progressivism 1.Become aware of the problem. 2.Define the problem. 3.Propose hypotheses to solve it. 4.Evaluate the consequences of the hypotheses from past experience. 5.Test the most likely solution. Center for Dewey Studies

Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 Pragmatism Charles Sanders Peirce and William James Knowledge and Metaphysics Theory of Knowledge (Epistemology) Click here To Learn more

Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 Epistemology The study of nature and knowledge (truth and belief- justification) Theory of Justification or Theory of Knowledge Theory of Truth Click on the green Put it all together Defining ‘belief’: Look at Venn Diagram (1/3 down page)

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

Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 Work Cited 1.Garrison, Jim (1999,November 10). John Dewey. Retrieved June 19, 2006, Web site: hn_dewey.htm 2.Neill, James (2005, January 25). John Dewey: Philosopy of Education. Retrieved June 25, 2006, Web site: eyPhilosophyEducation.html 3.Smith, Mark (1997, May 8). John Dewey. Retrieved June 20, 2006, Web site: 4.Shook, John (1998). John Dewey, American Pragmatist. Retrieved June 20, 2006, Web site:

Cheryl Davidson 6/20/2006 Work Cited Continued 5.Field, Richard (2006). John Dewey ( ). Retrieved June 25, 2006, Web site: 6.Wikipedia, (2006). Epistomology. Retrieved June 20, 2006, Web site: