Reported byJohnny BerbanoChrysia Franco

Born in Burlington, Vermont, on 20 October 1859

Graduated from University of Vermont in 1879

Received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1884

Philosopher Psychologist Educator Social Critic Political Activist

My Pedagogic Creed (1897) The School and Society (1900) Child and the Curriculum (1902) Democracy and Education: An

Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1916)

How We Think: A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process (1933)Experience

Education (1938)

 instrumentalism in its theoretical aspect, and as meliorism in its ethical aspect. 

According to him, nature is a continuously flowing stream. It uses thought as an instrument or tool to pass from a given situation, full of ambiguities and disharmonies, to a new and better situation.

Dewey's "instrumentalism" affirms that cognition consists in forging ideal tools or instruments with which to cope with a given situation. 

Education is life itself-John Dewey

Theory on Education

Theory on Democracy

Theory on Functional Psychology

Theory on Pragmatism

Theory on Epistemology

THEORIES:

http://dewey.pragmatism.org/ http://www.wilderdom.com/

experiential/JohnDeweyPhilosophyEducation.html

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/janicke/Dewey.html

http://radicalacademy.com/phildewey.htm

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/john-dewey-theories.html