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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Dewey, John, 1859-1952"”.
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From absolutes to aesthetics : John Dewey and the art of experience /
… sought 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 …
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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 …
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Digital Democracy: A Series of Reflections on Plato, Rousseau and Dewey and the Role that Technology Played in Constraining and Liberating their Imagination
… philosophers of education (Plato, Rousseau and Dewey), we will better understand how real technologies and ideal philosophies are necessarily related. With such knowledge, we may inform our educational reform alternatives with the goal of developing a democratic citizenry through education. In …
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Mystical anxiety: American philosophy between Emerson and pragmatism
A genealogical continuity between Ralph Waldo Emerson and American pragmatism has been one of the most prominent narratives constructed by scholars of American intellectual history in recent decades. This dissertation unsettles this selective interpretation of American thought rooted in the …
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The significance of the work of Colonel Francis Wayland Parker in the progressive educational movement with special reference to his influence on John Dewey
… the background provided by his reforms for Dr. John Dewey's contribution to the elementary school.</p>