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John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, on October 20th, 1859. He attended public school in the area and the University of Vermont. John Dewey graduated in 1879 and went to teach high school for two years, where he started pursuing a career in philosophy. He then went to Baltimore to become a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. John Dewey was one of the early founds of American pragmatism. On June 1st, 1952, John Dewey died of pneumonia in New York at 92.
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John Dewey founded an experimental elementary school in 1894 at the University of Chicago. This is where he wanted to test his educational theories. However, John Dewey resigned because his wife got fired by the university president.
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In 1899, John Dewey published the pamphlet The School and Society, which started education reforms. He wanted children to have hands-on with real things and materials to break the old model of schooling where students sat in rows and were passively learning. He wanted students to be problem solvers motivated by interest. He believed students should learn through doing and not just memorizing and reciting. -
In 1919, Dewey and his colleagues founded a new school named, The New School for Social Research. -
John Dewey practiced what he preached, which was learning by doing. He created a school that allowed students to learn by themselves. Students were able to have ideas of their own and explore those ideas to understand their world. John Dewey also encouraged students to learn together and learn from each other. The school he created is still standing today and is known as the Laboratory School at Chicago. This school invites students to learn together for research.
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Dewey, John. The School and Society. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1899.
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