Schools of Tomorrow - Softcover

Dewey, John; Dewey, Evelyn

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ISBN 10: 1530298865 ISBN 13: 9781530298860

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Modern day efforts in education reform often call for an examination of “out-of-the-box” approaches that appear to be achieving promising outcomes. John Dewey and his daughter Evelyn took just that approach in preparation for their 1915 book SCHOOLS OF TO-MORROW. John Dewey’s reputation by this time was well established—not only in the field of education but also in psychology and philosophy. Evelyn was an experienced teacher with a special interest in experimentation, becoming involved with the Bureau of Educational Experiments and assisting her father in his educational investigations. Both father and daughter were intensely interested in the plight of immigrant and other disadvantaged students. John Dewey, drawing heavily on the philosophy of Rousseau, envisions learning as a child’s natural propensity, given his or her awareness of approaching adulthood. Educators tend, he believes, to overstress the traditional (one might say “unnatural”) academic components of public education at the expense of the child’s innate desire to learn how to be a successful adult. The text includes numerous real-life examples of teachers and students involved in the above approach, with photographs showing students engaged in learning. While these illustrations are taken from a century ago, one can easily imagine the same scenes with students involved in activities related to today’s technological, economic, and scientific fields.

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John Dewey(1859 1952) was anAmerican philosopher, psychologistandeducational reformerwhose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy ofpragmatismand one of the founders offunctional psychology. He was a major representative ofprogressive educationandliberalism.In 1894 Dewey joined the newly foundedUniversity of Chicago(1894 1904) where he developed his belief in an empirically based theory of knowledge, becoming associated with the newly emerging Pragmatic philosophy. His time at the University of Chicago resulted in four essays collectively entitledThought and its Subject-Matter, which was published with collected works from his colleagues at Chicago under the collective titleStudies in Logical Theory(1903). During that time Dewey also initiated theUniversity of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to actualize the pedagogical beliefs that provided material for his first major work on education, The School and Social Progress(1899).In 1899, Dewey was elected president of theAmerican Psychological Association. From 1904 until his retirement in 1930 he was professor of philosophy at both Columbia Universityand Columbia University'sTeachers College.In 1905 he became president of theAmerican Philosophical Association. He was a longtime member of theAmerican Federation of Teachers.

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