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Birth
John Dewey was bon on October 20th, 1859 in Burlington, VT. -
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John Dewey: A Pioneer of Education
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First Teaching Position
After graduation from the University of Vermont, Dewey taught high school for two years and elementary school for one year in Oil City, Pennsylvania. It was after these teaching experiences that Dewey decided he was unsuited to be a primary or secondary teacher, and decided to focus on the educational philosophy. He would go on to study at Johns Hopkins University. -
Back to Teaching
After recieiving his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University, Dewey would go on to accept a teaching position at the University of Michigan. He would hold this position for ten years and write his first dissertation, The Physchology of Kant. -
American Psychological Association, The School and Society
Dewey is elected President of the American Psychological Association and his, The School and Society, which had been a series of lectures, was published. -
School of Education
Dewey founds the School of Education at the University of Chicago. -
Visit to China
While visiting Asia from 1919-1920, Dewey gives neary 200 lectures to students regarding education reform, he is hailed as the "Second Confucius". -
Visit to Turkey
Dewey is invited by the Turkish government to come speak to students about educational reform. -
The John Dewey Society
The John Dewey Society is founded, dedicated to the study of school and society. Dewey publishes Liberalism and Social Action, a product of a series of lectures given at the University of Virginia. -
Experience and Education
Dewey publishes his last major educational work, Experience and Education.In this, just like his other writings on education, Dewey continually emphasizes experience, experiment, purposeful learning, freedom, and other concepts of progressive education. -
Knowing and the Known
At the age of ninety he published his last large-scale original philosophical work, Knowing andthe Known, in collaboration with Arthur F. Bentley. -
Death
John Dewey died on June 1st, 1952 in New York City, NY. He was 92 years old.