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Early Life
John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont. Growing up Dewey attended many public schools and extinguished himself as a top student. At the age of 15 he enrolled at the University of Vermont where he studied philosophy, four years later at the age of 19 he graduated from the University second in his class in 1879 (Gouinlock, John Dewey 1998). -
Teaching Career
Mr. Dewey started his first teaching job at a seminary in Oil City, Pennsylvania with the aid of his cousin. Two years later he was laid off, Dewey went back to Vermont to teach but during his free time he would read philosophical treatises leading up to his fascination with the topic. George Sylvester Morris and G. Stanley Hall were among some of the people who influenced Dewey the most. In 1884 Dewey studied Philosophy and Psychology which landed him his Doctorates (Cherry, 2020). -
Impacts on School Pt.2
Dewey sought to be the change in the way things are thought as man struggled to understand the results of change, he was forced to think creatively in order to resume control of his shifting environment. For Dewey, thought was the means through which man came to understand and connect with the world around him. A universal education was the key to teaching people how to abandon their habits and think creatively (Field, 2016). -
Impacts On School
As Dewey interests grew on Philosophical treaties he developed his own unique philosophy on experimentalism which is largely centered around human experience (Cherry, 2020). Dewey did not agree with the ideas of Transcendentalism in which he had exhibited in academia. Dewey was a stepping stone in the progressive school reform he wanted to implement the teaching style of " learning through doing". Essentially we can thank John Dewey for our arts and craft classes. -
Contributions
Throughout Dewey career as a teacher he was eventually accepted as the chairman of the department of philosophy, psychology and pedagogy at the University of Chicago in 1894. This is where Dewey was able to lengthen his views on his thoughts now known as pragmatism which is the practice of value and truth through practical consequences. This thought process is what we know as epistemology in the Philosophy of Science. -
Contributions Pt.2
John Dewey was mostly known for his inventive teaching style and writings that stretched to 1,000 books written. In his book Dewey J. "How We Think" he introduces a five stage decision making process, these stages are Problem Recognition, Information Search, Alternative Evaluation, Choice and outcomes. Dewey identified this five stage process to expound on what separates thinking and how to train ourselves into mastering the art of thinking. -
Conclusion
John Dewey lived a long and illustrious life with his most impacts being towards many things that we use today in our school system. In the world of Science he acknowledged the view known as instrumentalism as a very pivotal pillar that is not a infallible reflection of reality, on the contrary he saw experimentation itself as fallible. Nonetheless John Dewey left a legacy for many other philosophers and enthusiast to grow upon and express more great ideas. -
WORK CITED Pt.2
- Dewey, J. (1970, January 1). How we think : John Dewey : Free download, Borrow, and streaming. Internet Archive. Retrieved May 22, 2022, from https://archive.org/details/howwethink000838mbp
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WORK CITED
- Boyles, Deron. John Dewey's Imaginative Vision of Teaching : Combining Theory and Practice, Myers Education Press, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/apus/detail.action?docID=6260837.
- Gouinlock, J. S. (1998). John Dewey. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved May 21, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Dewey
- Field, R. (2016). John Dewey. Internet encyclopedia of philosophy. Retrieved May 22, 2022, from https://iep.utm.edu/john-dewey/