John Dewey

Dewey's educational theories and experiments had global reach, his psychological theories influenced that growing science, and his writings about democratic theory and practice helped shape academic and practical debates for decades.

Known as the father of progressive education, he argued that genuine learning is a continuous reconstruction of experience guided by reflective thinking.

Education according to John Dewey is the 'participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race' (Dewey, 1897, para. 1).

In the same year, he accepted a faculty position at the University of Michigan (1884-88 and 1889-94) with the help of George Sylvester Morris.

There are those who also cite the contribution of John Dewey such as his works on action research, which allows the construction of complex understanding of teaching and learning.

In modern times, the phrase critical thinking was coined by Pragmatist philosopher John Dewey in his book How We Think.

In 1896, John Dewey opened what he called the laboratory school to test his theories.

In 1933 (based on work first published in 1910), John Dewey described five phases or aspects of reflective thought

was influenced by the thinking of Edward Thorndike and John Dewey, both of whom Mitchell had studied with at Columbia University

An early supporter of John Dewey's progressive education movement, Counts became the leading proponent of social reconstructionism in education.

The third is what Kegan calls the constructive-developmental tradition (which includes James Mark Baldwin, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Jean Piaget, Lawrence Kohlberg, William G. Perry, and Jane Loevinger).

The theories of the American educator John Dewey especially influenced him.

Her views regarding literacy were influenced by John Dewey

Kohn's ideas on education have been influenced by the works of John Dewey and Jean Piaget.

Dewey was Kilpatrick's most important professor and mentor while Kilpatrick was a student at Teachers College.

John Dewey, in 1913, first referred to this as "fictitious inducements to attention".

Philosophers John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley, in their foundational work Knowing and the Known (1949), described transaction as inquiry where "existing descriptions are tentative and preliminary, allowing new descriptions of events at any stage." Transactionalism rejects simple dualisms (like mind-body) and fixed explanations.

Reflective learning is a development of the concept of experiential learning as propounded by John Dewey, who wrote Experience and Education in 1938.