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After obtaining his doctorate in Philosophy from John Hopkins University, Dewey accepted a teaching position at the University of Michigan. While there, Dewey wrote his first two books "Psychology" in 1887 and "Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding-A Critical Exposition" in 1888. https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Dewey
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In 1894 Dewey moved on to the University of Chicago, where he founded and directed a laboratory elementary school. There he taught his ideas of pedagogical method. Which went on to be one of the most distinguished primary schools, of the progressive education movement. Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy, ed. D.C. Phillips. Thousend Oaks, CA: Sage 2014. Vol. 2. Pp. 455-458.
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A series of lectures, discussing the way in which education is tied to a thriving democracy. It also discussed the way the old education model, for elementary schools, did not encourage exploration and curiosity with its students. https://www.iep.utm.edu/dewey/
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Here Dewey addresses the challenge of providing quality public education, in a democratic society. His theory was that education was formed and transformed by experience, reflection and hands on activity.
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Dewey's development of ideas, regarding the nature of logical theory. Its objective was to help to clarify the process and the development of skills for inquiry, in the context of decision making. http://a.co/d/deBkLAg
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In his final works, written at the age of 90, "Knowing and the Known" was a series of essays and collaborations with Arthur F. Bentley, emphasizing the unity of "Thought" and the "Thinker" functioning in one process, of traditional idealism. Mays, W. (1952). Knowing and the Known. By John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley. (The Beacon Press. Boston. 1949. Pp. xiii 334. Price $4.0.). Philosophy, 27(102), 263-265. doi:10.1017/S0031819100034112
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