Reconstructive Habits: John Dewey on Human Functioning

John Dewey on History Education and the Historical Method

Th is essay constructs a comprehensive view of Dewey’s approach to history, the historical method, and history education. Drawing on Dewey’s approach to the subject at the University of Chicago Laboratory School (1896-1904), Dewey’s chapter on the historical method in Logic: A Th eory of Inquiry (1938), and a critique of Dewey’s philosophy of history that appeared in the American Historical Rev...

Clinical pragmatism: John Dewey and clinical ethics.

The Paradox of freedom : John dewey on human naTure , CulTure , and eduCaTion

In this paper, I argue that John Dewey's view of human nature entails that culture is a necessary but not sufficient condition for freedom. A surprising corollary of this argument is that, if left to run its natural course, culture in fact tends not to enable but rather to preclude freedom. Hence, there are specific cultural practices—habits acquired through education—that are required if we ar...

the challenges of john dewey,s theory on democracy

democray is the most importantn element in dewey’s thought. in this paper dewey’s theory on democray will be evaluated, furthermor some challenges are ascrbed to it: first, dewey has not presented any philosophical argument about his idea: “democracy is a moral ideal”. second: if it is known by a posteriori method that democracy is the best, this idea can not be generalized to future, so it cou...

John Dewey, the Math and Science Standards, and the Workplace

Are there lessons to be learned by today's educational reformers from the fa te of Dewey's pedagogicalprit» ciples over the past century?