Founded in 1887 as a teacher-training school responding to the social and economic changes of American industrialisation, Teachers College affiliated with Columbia University in 1898 and became its Faculty of Education. It was the academic home of John Dewey, who taught philosophy at Columbia and education at Teachers College from 1904 until his retirement in 1930, and during its first decades it launched some of the earliest American programs in educational psychology, comparative and international education, and special education.
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John Dewey, Thinkers Dewey taught at Teachers College from 1904 to his 1930 retirement; the institution was not his founding but his long academic home.
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William Bagley, Thinkers William Bagley, founder of Essentialism in education, was professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University from 1917 to 1940.
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William Heard Kilpatrick, developer of the Project Method, was a long-serving faculty member at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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In 1887-1888, it employed six instructors and enrolled 36 juniors in its inaugural class as well as 86 special students.
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Teachers College, Columbia University, was also associated with philosopher and public intellectual John Dewey, who served as president of the American Psychological Association and the American Philosophical Association and was a professor at Teachers College from 1904 until his retirement in 1930.
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Teachers College, Columbia University (TC) is the graduate school of education of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City.
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Teachers College, Columbia University (TC) is the graduate school of education, health, and psychology of Columbia University.
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Founded in 1887 as a teacher-training school responding to the social and economic changes of American industrialisation, Teachers College affiliated with Columbia University in 1898 and became its Faculty of Education.
Associated With: John Dewey, Teachers College, Columbia University, Notable faculty
John Dewey...was a professor at Teachers College from 1904 until his retirement in 1930.
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William Heard Kilpatrick, philosopher of education
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He was professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia, from 1917 to 1940.
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