Why revisit John Dewey’s philosophy on education and democracy now? I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and ...

EUROPEAN domination of American educational theory ended with the nineteenth century. Professor John Dewey, long of I Columbia University but then of the University of Chicago, published The School ...

RALEIGH — Just about everyone has an opinion about how to improve education, and it’s usually an opinion passionately held and forcefully argued. It’s not hard to see why. After all, schools are the ...

Thirty years of “life adjustment” by the followers of Progressive Educator John Dewey have left U.S. education over adjusted, ill-equipped to quicken intellectual life. This week, in “The Deeper ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry September 21, 2017 2016-05-07T14:53:57-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/55c/20160507145640003_hd.jpgJudy Whipps discusses Jane Addams ...

Martin Bickman’s Op-Ed piece, “Won’t You Come Home, John Dewey?” July 20, places altogether too much hope on the ability of John Dewey or -- by extension -- anyone else to resolve the polarization ...

In early March at the National Association of Independent Schools annual conference, educator, blogger, and thought leader Grant Lichtman summarized his findings from a months-long, coast-to-coast ...

Dewey has been to our age what Aristotle was to the later Middle Ages, not a philosopher, but the philosopher, added historian Hilda Neatby. The philosopher began his education in Burlington public ...

Memphis is to Elvis as Burlington is to ... John Dewey? Not really. Yes, both cities have the historic homesteads, and both cities were springboards to international renown. But Elvis is undoubtedly ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Judy Whipps talks about the conditions in Chicago during the 1890s, the impact it had on Jane Addams and the philosophy and activism of ...