scholarly journals Person of the Issue: John Dewey (1859-1952)

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankit Patel
Keyword(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Vermont ◽  
Oil City ◽  
Functional Psychology

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founders of functional psychology. A well-known public intellectual, he was also a major voice of progressive education and liberalism. Although Dewey is known best for his publications about education, he also wrote about many other topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, art, logic, social theory, and ethics. John Dewey graduated from the University of Vermont and spent three years as a high school teacher in Oil City, Pennsylvania. He then spent a year studying under the guidance of G. Stanley Hall at John Hopkins University in America’s first psychology lab. After earning his Ph.D. from John Hopkins, Dewey went on to teach at the University of Michigan for nearly a decade. In 1894, Dewey accepted a position as the chairman of the department of philosophy, psychology and pedagogy at the University of Chicago. It was at the University of Chicago that Dewey began to formalize his views that would contribute so heavily to the school of thought known as pragmatism. The central tenant of pragmatism is that the value, truth or meaning of an idea lies in its practical consequences. Dewey also helped establish the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to directly his apply his pedagogical theories.

Father and I

2013 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
Chen Ning Yang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The Usa ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

Father (K. C. Yang (楊克純), 1896–1973) was a high school teacher in Anqing (安慶) in 1922 when I was born in Hefei (合肥). Anqing was then also called Huaining (懷寧). Father gave me the name Chen Ning, of which Chen was the name of my generation in our family, and Ning was derived from Huaining. Before I was one year old Father won an Anhui (安徽) Provincial Fellowship for studying in the USA. We had a family picture (Fig. 1) taken in the courtyard outside our bedroom a few days before he left home. Father had on the traditional robe and coat, standing stiff and erect. He had probably up to that point never worn a western suit. Two years later he sent a picture (Fig. 2) to Mother from the University of Chicago, in which his attire and bearing had both entered the twentieth century. Father was a handsome man. The exuberance and optimism of his youth were clearly captured in this photograph.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE POTENTIAL OF FACULTY MEMBERS

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Юлия Масалова ◽  
Yuliya Masalova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Employment Potential ◽  
The University

The purpose of the work is to evaluate the potential of a high school teacher; the subject of study is employment potential and competitiveness of the university faculty member; research methods include analysis of statistical data and online-survey. The article presents the results of the research potential of the university teaching staff in the conditions of ongoing reforms in higher education and in connection with changing requirements to higher education institutions forfaculty members. It was determined that faculty members demonstrate high loyalty and commitment, but average engagement. It was revealed that the institution creates proper conditions for development and self-realization, creativity and communication. It was confirmed that university professors have a high scientific and innovative potential and willingness to conduct research. The conclusion is that the employment potential of university staff is not used to the full. It was determined that the majority of the teaching staff appreciates personal competitiveness. And only one out of five is aware of the need to develop their personal competitiveness in line with the new requirements. The results of the study may be useful for university governance within the management of human resources quality.

scholarly journals ELLA FLAGG YOUNG AND THE GENDER POLITICS OF DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie M. Blount
Keyword(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Democratic Schools ◽  
Intellectually Gifted ◽  
Democracy And Education ◽  
The University

Though John Dewey had considered education and democracy separately in his early career, he came to understand them as essentially linked concepts during his nearly ten-year collaboration with Ella Flagg Young at the University of Chicago. This intellectually gifted women, who eventually became superintendent of Chicago’s schools, connected education and democracy as well as theory and practice, essentially showing Dewey how democratic schools might work. This article briefly traces Dewey’s developing ideas of education and democracy in the context of his relationship with Young.

The Low-Church Idea of a University

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-188
Author(s):  
George M. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Efficiency Expert ◽  
Upton Sinclair ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Democratic Ideals ◽  
Biblical Scholar ◽  
The University

William Rainey Harper, founder of the University of Chicago, was an accomplished biblical scholar who convinced John D. Rockefeller Sr. that Baptists needed a great university. While Harper emphasized Christian character, chapel, community, and Christian dimensions in teaching, he was also an efficiency expert who was later accused, as by Upton Sinclair and Thorsten Veblen, of building a university too much beholden to business interests. Amos Alonzo Stagg saw football as contributing to building character and community. In Harper’s “low-church idea of a university,” America was his parish. Sociology, as represented by Albion Small, was presented as a Christian and democratic moral enterprise and can be seen as a last flowering of moral philosophy. John Dewey, who had abandoned earlier Christian faith, exemplifies how a broadly Christian moral heritage might blend with democratic ideals.

John Jacob Abel, 1857 - 1938

1939 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 577-585 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
School Teacher ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
College Course ◽  
High Regard ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

By a sad coincidence, the official notification to Professor Abel of his election to the Foreign Membership of the Royal Society was delivered on the day of his death, 26 May 1938. It is a loss to the Society, that one who was justly held in such high regard by workers in Pharmacology and the neighbouring fields of medical science, in his own country and widely beyond it, should thus never have been effectively of the distinguished company of our Foreign Members. It is known, however, through his friends, that the news of his election had reached him, and had given him pleasure, during his last, brief illness. Abel was born on 19 May 1857 on a farm near Cleveland, Ohio, into a family which came originally from the Germ an Rhineland. There is nothing recorded of his ancestors to suggest an inheritance of qualities making for eminence in science. It seems probable that his university training was won largely by his own determination and enterprise ; for it is on record that he interrupted his college course; for three years, during which he acted as head of a high school in Indiana and taught a wide range of subjects—Latin and mathematics, as well as physics and chemistry. He ultimately graduated as Ph.B. at the University of Michigan in 1883. In the same year he married Miss Mary Hinman, whom he had met as a fellow school-teacher. Mrs Abel was his devoted helper and comrade for the rest of their active lives, winning the warm regard of the many whom Abel taught and inspired, and dying a few months before him.

Experimenting with Education: John Dewey and Ella Flagg Young at the University of Chicago

1996 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Keyword(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The University

John Dewey and the University of Michigan

1962 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 513 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Dykhuizen
Keyword(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The University
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