The Education of John Dewey: A Biography

by Jay Martin

Book Overview

During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American philosophy of the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today, anticipating as it did the ascendance in contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231116764
• ISBN13: 9780231116763
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher