Stephen j sniegoski biography of william

John Dewey: An Outline of His Educational Thought

This World: An Annual of Religion and Public Life, 28 (), Making Sense of Modernity, ed.

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Stephen j sniegoski biography of william

by Paul E. Gottfried.

Describing John Dewey as the most important figure in Twentieth Century education, this article provides a critical analysis of Dewey’s ideas on philosophy and education, which brings out how Dewey sought to create a new philosophy and society in line with Darwinian evolutionary science and the overall scientific method (at least, his interpretation of it), which he believed should guide  all human endeavors.

Dewey believed that the scientific method implied democracy because of the latter’s openness to experimentation and change and that the ethos of democracy had to infuse all sectors of society—e.g., the family, school, industry, religion--and not be limited to aspects of the political realm, a