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Dewey, John
John Dewey was an American philosopher and social theorist known chiefly for his application of educational theories, especially pragmatism, to ideas of democracy. Dewey was born October 20, 1859, in Burlington, Vermont. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont in 1879 and then taught high school in Pennsylvania and Vermont for three years before beginning graduate school. In 1884, he received his PhD in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. His first academic positions were at the universities of Michigan (1884–88, 1889–94) and Minnesota (1888–89). In 1894, Dewey moved to the University of Chicago, where he taught philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy and where he founded the Laboratory School to put his educational philosophy into practice. Most of his academic life, from 1904 until ...
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