The education of John Dewey: a biography
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Main Author: Martin, Jay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press c2002
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-538) and index
During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American philosophy of the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today, anticipating as it did the ascendance in contemporary American pedagogy of multiculturalism and independent thinking. His University of Chicago Laboratory School (founded in 1896) thrives still and
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 562 p)
ISBN:9780231507455

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