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The two had six children: Frederick Archibald Dewey, Evelyn Riggs Dewey, Morris (who died young), Gordon Chipman Dewey, Lucy Alice Chipman Dewey, and Jane Mary Dewey. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Alice Chipman died in 1927 at the age of 68; weakened by a case of malaria contracted during a trip to Turkey in 1924 and a heart attack during a trip to Mexico City ...
Evelyn Riggs Dewey (1889–1965) was an American education reformer and social activist and author of several books on education. Prior to her education work, she was involved in the Women's Trade Union League , particularly concerning the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 .
The Public and Its Problems is a 1927 book by American philosopher John Dewey.In his first major work on political philosophy, Dewey explores the viability and creation of a genuinely democratic society in the face of the major technological and social changes of the 20th century, and seeks to better define what both the 'public' and the 'state' constitute, how they are created, and their ...
Alice Chipman Dewey (September 7, 1858 – July 14, 1927) was an American education reformer, philosopher, and feminist.She was instrumental in the development of progressive educational practices alongside her husband, philosopher John Dewey.
In 1916, influenced by the work of John Dewey, Mitchell cofounded the Bureau of Educational Experiments (BEE) in New York City to study and develop optimal learning environments for children. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The BEE evolved into the Bank Street College of Education.
John Dewey, an academic philosopher of education, inspired Wirt when Wirt was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. In turn Dewey and his disciples praised the Gary Plan. [ 3 ] In 1907, Wirt became superintendent of schools in the newly planned city of Gary, Indiana , which was built by U.S. Steel corporation.
John Dewey broadened the scope of the concept, applying it to the educational setting (Lipman, 2003, pp. 20–21). Borrowing from Dewey, Lipman systematically applies the concept to the educational setting. He argues that a classroom is a type of community of inquiry, which leads to “questioning, reasoning, connecting, deliberating ...
Individualism Old and New is a politically and socially progressive book by John Dewey, an American philosopher, written in 1930.Written at the beginning of the Great Depression, the book argues that the emergence of a new kind of American individualism necessitates political and cultural reform to achieve the true liberation of the individual in a world where the individual has become submerged.