Psychology, Reflex Arc Concept and the Birth of Functionalism
Dewey’s textbook, Psychology, published in 1887, was reviewed. It showed Dewey’s staggering effort, which was based on the British framework imbued with German experimental research findings. I discovered that many of Dewey’s later ideas in education and
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Rediscovering John Dewey
Rex Li
Rediscovering John Dewey How His Psychology Transforms Our Education
Rex Li G.T. College Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong
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To my colleagues at Dewey Center, Fudan University, Shanghai and G.T. College, Hong Kong
Preface
John Dewey: The Best Known and The Least Understood In the widely-acclaimed series of Very Short Introductions by Oxford University Press, a new title on education was released a few years ago (Thomas 2013). In it, the name of John Dewey appeared in the first paragraph of the preface, alongside Einstein, Newton, Darwin and Marx. While Dewey was hailed as “arguably the greatest thinker about education in modern times,” the author conceded that few laypeople are able to “offer anything at all about Dewey” (preface p.1). Why is there a paradox that the best known becomes the least understood? Dewey (1859–1952) started with a Christian faith and was trained under Hegelian philosophy. However, he ended up as an atheist (by cosigning the Humanist Manifesto in 1933) and founded a new philosophy—pragmatism. His writings are as diverse as philosophy, psychology, education, logic and science as well as democracy and local and international politics. His collected works exceeded 8 million words. He is considered “the philosopher of American culture”, who defines “the spirit of America” (Shook and Kurtz 2011: 9). His view on education is such paradigm-setting that most modern education theories st
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