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John Dewey and cultural racism
… The 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 …
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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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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
… thought 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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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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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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*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 …
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John Dewey et la théorie de la valuation : quelle pertinence pour l’éthique appliquée aujourd’hui?
Le pragmatisme et la pensée de John Dewey intéressent actuellement un nombre grandissant de chercheurs en philosophie et en sciences humaines. Cet intérêt se manifeste depuis quelques années en éthique appliquée au Québec. Cette recherche vise à cerner la pertinence de la pensée de Dewey pour ce …
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John Dewey on Theory of Learning and Inquiry: The Scientific Method and Subject Matter
… concludes by showing that, educationally, Dewey's ideas of the scientific method have different meanings in different context. It analyzes the scientific method as empirical method, critical thinking, cooperative learning, and creative thinking, and shows the place of subject matter in each …
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A Naturalistic Ontology of Generic Traits and Emergent Phenomena: Reinterpreting the Metaphysics of John Dewey
I offer an interpretive reconstruction of John Dewey’s naturalistic metaphysics. I explore the function and interrelation of a number of terms that are central to Dewey’s metaphysics, including “nature,” “continuity,” “generic traits of existence,” the “qualitative,” “experience,” and “emergence.” …
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Experiencing the Game: an Interpretive, Multi-Case Study of Video Game Spaces Using the Philosophies of John Dewey
… (Salen, 2008). It is for this reason that John Dewey’s theories of experience, aesthetics, and education are proposed as a possible framework by which to study video game spaces. This study utilized an interpretive, multi-case study design that focused on the individual game experiences of …
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The ends and means of empowerment and John Dewey: Examining the possibilities and consequences of a liberatory rhetoric
… paper is an exploration of the suitability of John Dewey's theories for critiquing educational reform, particularly the component of teacher empowerment. At another level, the paper tells the story of empowerment reform in the United States, primarily through Dewey's lens, to better understand …
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The Emerging Paradigm of Reader-Text Transaction: Contributions of John Dewey and Louise M. Rosenblatt, with Implications for Educators
… The paradigm of transaction, implicit in John Dewey's writings as early as 1896 in "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology," was originally described in terms of "interaction" between organism and environment. Only in 1949, in the twilight of his career, did Dewey definitively distinguish …
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The incomparable means of instruction : John Dewey's Art as experience applied as the conceptual foundation for kindergarten through elementary curriculum
John Dewey’s Art as Experience (1934) declares art to be the “incomparable organ of instruction” on the third to last page of the book. This dissertation analyzes the place of children within the aesthetic philosophy Dewey expresses in the text and what the implications of Art as Experience could …
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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>
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