John Dewey
(1859-1952)
John Dewey was a philosopher, a psychologist, an educator, and great defender of American democracy and social welfare.
He became a leading proponent of the new philosophy of American pragmatism developed by Charles Sanders Peirce and William James in the 1860's
He studied psychology with the first American Ph.D in psychology, G.Stanley Hall (James was his adviser), who founded the American Journal of Psychology in 1887 and was elected the first president of the new American Psychological Association in 1892.
In 1894 Dewey joined the new University of Chicago, where he founded the Laboratory Schools to do pedagogical research. He wrote a pioneering article on education, The Relation between Theory and Practice.
