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John Dewey and cultural racism
… aim of this thesis is the investigation of John Dewey’s ideology vis-à-vis race. It is my argument that Dewey, while he was an avowed anti-racist and was not a scientific racist in the vein of Herbert Spencer, Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy of human social development was implicitly racist in ways …
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Dewey, Disability, and Democratic Education
… manuscripts that coalesce around the topics of Dewey, Disability, and Democratic Education. Each manuscript is formatted for publication and the dissertation itself is prefaced by information that explains my background and how it connects to my current research. As such, the work contained in …
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What John Dewey Owes to Froebel
Whatever the subject for discussion in regard to education, or educators, may be, in its many and various phases whether on matters of great importance, or those of lessor scope, in this twentieth century, unsurpassed for progress in art, literature, science and education, the fact remains that our …
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The Aesthetic Object in Santayana and Dewey
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John Dewey, Historiography, and the Practice of History.
<p>John Dewey was America's foremost authority on many of the critical issues in the twentieth century. Dewey dedicated his professional career as an expert on the major branches of philosophy.</p><p>A neglected aspect of Dewey's philosophy is his writings on historiography, the philosophy of …
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John Dewey and an ecological philosophy of religion
… of the 20th century American philosopher John Dewey. Its motivation is that Dewey’s religious views have been seriously misunderstood and under appreciated by philosophers and Dewey scholars to date. Breaking with the standard interpretation of Dewey as a thoroughly scientific and secular …
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John Dewey and Reinhold Niebuhr: An Uncommon Faith
… main questions: One, what was the nature of Dewey and Niebuhr's conflict? Two, how did their assessment of liberalism differ? Three, what kind of synthesis is possible between their conflicting views of the value of ""religion"" and the ""religious"" in modernity?"
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Reflections on en-teaching: Dewey, Heidegger and Lao Tzu
… and learning with insights from Lao Tzu and Dewey. In the last chapter, I try to not only reflect upon all previous chapters but respond to the practical question, “What does en-teaching mean to me as I face my class on Monday morning?”
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John Dewey in American Thought and Culture, 1950-2000
Historians have long regarded John Dewey (1859-1952) as a central theorist of American democracy during the first half of the twentieth century. Yet, while historians have given much attention to Dewey’s philosophy, they have neglected to examine his posthumous influence on American thought and …
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The Practical Philosophies of John Dewey and Elijah Jordan
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Reconstructing the Republic : Dewey's back to Plato movement.
… "From Absolutism to Experimentalism," John Dewey makes a perplexing statement. After an extended discussion of the teachers that directly shaped his view of philosophy, Dewey cites his two philosophical heroes. First, he mentions Hegel and comments on how his "astute critics" have noticed …
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Dewey and Scheffler on the Relationship of Learning and *Inquiry
This study compares the views of John Dewey and Israel Scheffler on the relationship of learning and inquiry. After examining key aspects of Dewey's educational theory and Logic, it examines some of Scheffler's major criticisms of how Dewey relates theory to practice, problem-solving to scientific …
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Dewey and Kuyper: A Common Grace in the Public Sphere
… However, Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) and John Dewey (1859-1952), share a similar appreciation for the scope and depth of religiosity in public life. Although Kuyper was a Christian and Dewey did not consider himself a theist, each understands religious experience as informing every sphere of …
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From absolutes to aesthetics : John Dewey and the art of experience /
… to capture something of the integrity of John Dewey's larger vision. While recognizing this to be a difficult challenge, I needed to clear some of the debris of an overly narrow reading of Dewey's works by students of education. The tendency of reducing Dewey's larger philosophical vision down …
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*Inquiry and Its Contexts: John Dewey and the Aims of Education
… to inquiry. For if the sort of inquiry that Dewey claims is necessary to solve 'the problems of men,' is to be cultivated, certain characteristics of schools must be present for this to happen. I conclude the study with examples of two schools that, broadly speaking, achieve this. Suggestions …
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Reason as a Natural Function in the Philosophy of John Dewey
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Phenomenological Pragmatism: Freedom as the Immanent Transcendence of Desire in John Dewey
… neither from our desires nor our control. John Dewey articulates this dynamic and proposes a solution; we can control desire and thereby ourselves by an immanent and reflective reconstruction of the meaning and object of desire. However, Dewey over-estimates the cognitive control of meaning and …
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The Development of an 8mm Single-Concept Film on the Dewey Decimal System
… visual approach to be used in teaching the main Dewey Decimal classification divisions to elementary school students. This was done through the technical aspects of making two eight millimeter cartridge films showing generalities of the Dewey Decimal division.
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