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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Anti-bias curriculum, Anti-oppressive education, Anti-racism in mathematics teaching, Antonia Darder, Banking education, Consciousness raising, Critical consciousness, Critical friend, Critical literacy, Critical reading, Culturally relevant teaching, Curriculum for Excellence, Curriculum studies, Deweyism, Ecopedagogy, Ethnomathematics, Experiential education, Experiential learning, Feminist theory in composition studies, Henry Giroux, Hidden curriculum, Humanitarian education, Inclusion (education), Informal mathematics, Ira Shor, John Asimakopoulos, John Dewey, Multicultural education, Outcome-based education, Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Peer learning, Percy Hughes, Peter McLaren, Place-based education, Poisonous pedagogy, Political consciousness, Popular education, Queer pedagogy, Radical Teacher, Reconstructivism, Robin Truth Goodman, Rouge Forum, Shirley R. Steinberg, Social networking pedagogy, Student-centred learning, Sudbury school, Teaching for social justice. Excerpt: John Dewey (; FAA October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. He was a major representative of progressive education and liberalism. Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education, he also wrote about many other topics, including experience, nature, art, logic, inquiry, democracy, and ethics. In his advocacy of democracy, Dewey considered two fundamental elements-schools and civil society-as being major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality. Dewey asserted that complete democracy was to be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by ensuring that there exists a fully formed public opinion, accomplished by effective communication among citizens, experts, and politicians, with the latter being accountable for the policies they adopt. Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, to a family of modest means. Like his older brother, Davis Rich Dewey, he attended the University of Vermont, from which he graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1879. A significant professor of Dewey's at the University of Vermont was Henry A. P. Torrey, the son-in-law and nephew of former University of Vermont president Joseph Torrey. Dewey studied privately with Torrey between his graduation from Vermont and his enrollment at Johns Hopkins University. After two years as a high-school teacher in Oil City, Pennsylvania and one teaching elementary school in the small town of Charlotte, Vermont, Dewey decided that he was unsuited for employment in primary or secondary education. After studying with George Sylvester Morris, Charles Sanders Peirce, Herbert Baxter Adams, and G. Stanley Hall, Dewey received his Ph.D. from the School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.
