John Dewey

By AGED 3033

  • birth

    Burlington,Vermot

  • started his own experimental primary school

    Dewey and his wife Harriet started their own experimental primary school, the University Elementary School, at the University of Chicago. His goal was to test his educational theories, but Dewey resigned when the university president fired Harriet.

  • Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology

    University of Chicago

  • elected president of the American Psychological Association

  • father of progressivism

    started the movement

  • became president of the American Psychological Association

  • "reflective thought"

    The concept "reflective thought" was introduced by John Dewey in 1910 in his "How We Think", a work designed for teachers.

  • lectures in Japan and China

  • establish a new political party,

    In 1946, Dewey even attempted to help labor leaders establish a new political party, the People’s Party, for the 1948 presidential elections.

  • death