Biography of John Dewey

American education

20 October 1859
June 1, 1952
John Dewey was born on day 20 October 1859 in Burlington (Vermont State). Here grows by receiving an education typical of the bourgeoisie of the time. He studied philosophy at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore City), where the training follows the principles of neo-Hegelian, graduating in 1884 with a dissertation on Psychology in Immanuel Kant. The formation of Dewey will be strongly influenced by American pragmatism and the evolution of Darwin. While the United States went through a period of tremendous economic growth, John Dewey after teaching in Detroit at Michigan University in 1894 became a professor at the University of Chicago; here after a couple of years he founded an adjoining workshop school grade. Because of his positions in 1904 contrasts generated by anticonservatrici is forced to move to Columbia University in New York.
Here Dewey creates a new experimental school financed by parents of pupils. Abandoned teaching in 1930 for reasons of age. In addition to continuing in its philosophical and pedagogical research, he founded a political party (radical Democrats) that operates during the crisis that began in 1929. This field acts on social and ethical issues, such as women's suffrage, or how the delicate issue of the unjust conviction of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. John Dewey died in New York on June 1, 1952 day at the ripe old age of 93 years. His legacy was to have a profound influence on the culture, the American politician and costume on education systems.
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