I. When I was asked to give the John Dewey L e c t u r e , I cons idered it a marve lous oppor tun i ty to r e tu rn to my i n t e l l e c t u a l roo t s , for I s t a r t e d my philosophic c a r e e r by wri t ing my d i s s e r t a t i o n on John Dewey. " R e t u r n " is not qu i te the a p p r o p r i a t e express ion , for e v e r y t h i n g tha t I 've wr i t t en s ince the early 19...

This article shows our research oriented towards improving doctoral theses by publications. This process is justified by John Dewey’s knowledge theory and various phases of Kilpatrick’s work. After a theoretical foundation, the research work set the steps in a thesis by publications, which is both validated by members of the scientific community and created from the knowledge of the experience ...

This paper develops a philosophical basis for the concept of community inquiry. Community inquiry derives from pragmatist theory as articulated by Dewey, Peirce, Addams, and others. Following Brendel, we discuss pragmatism in terms of its emphasis on the practical dimensions of inquiry, the pluralistic nature of the tools that are used to study phenomena, the participatory role of individuals w...

1 Dewey, Mitra, and the “Technological Proletariat:” Democratizing the Information Revolution John Hartmann, Southern Illinois University [email protected] Pragmatism and Technological Practice Conference Rochester Institute of Technology February 14, 2003 Do not cite w/o permission – comments are always welcome Introduction In his 1939 essay, “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us,” John De...

As education for librarianship approaches its centenary it is curious to note how many of the issues debated over the course of the last hundred years still remain unresolved today. Some of these are quite fundamental to the whole matter of education for a profession. In its strictly defined sense of formal full-time instruction, in an institution of higher education, specifically in librarians...

The emergence of Web 2.0 and some of its ascendant tools such as blogs and wikis have the potential to dramatically change education, both in how we conceptualize and operationalize processes and strategies. We argue in this paper that it is a change that has been over a century in coming. The promise of the Web 2.0 is similar to ideas proposed by Pragmatists such as Charles Peirce and John Dew...

Introduction By 1909, when Dewey celebrated his fi ft ieth birthday, he had long since augmented the pragmatic ideas of Charles Peirce and William James and forged from them a powerful method of philosophical, social, and educational critique and reconstruction. James had labeled him a philosophical hero and his ideas were inspiring leading philosophers and progressive era reformers. Following ...

This paper is about the notion of conflict in the work of John Dewey. Special attention is given to Democracy and Education (1916) because of its centennial and its acclaimed status of “magnum opus”. After depicting “conflicts as gadflies” that stir thinking—reflection and ingenuity—and relating it to Socrates, in particular, we present a definition of conflict that guides our research. From th...