Dewey Resources Online

John Dewey's Democracy and Education has been an education Bible for me ever since I was introduced to his work while I was coordinating the DECal program at UC-Berkeley back in the 80s (DECal is a Dewey and Freire-inspired long-running student organization which organizes classes that are developed and offered by students themselves). I've been teaching in many different forums and settings over the past twenty years, and Dewey remains absolutely central to all my teaching attempts - and now, finally, teaching online, I've come much closer to my goals of getting myself out of the equation and letting the students define and pursue their own learning pathways. It's not perfect, of course, because my class is part of a huge education bureaucracy which is patently anti-Dewey in every way... but there's a kind of freedom online that the bureaucracy at my school has not learned to stop (at least not yet!).

So, of course I was delighted to find that Democracy and Education is available online at ILTWeb.

Are there other good Dewey resources online people have found???

Meanwhile, check out the del.icio.us tag: del.icio.us/tag/johndewey

:-)

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Permalink Reply by Skip Zilla on July 28, 2007 at 9:34am

Thanks, Laura, for the link to the html version of Democracy and Education. Also, now that you've spilled the beans that you've been Dewey-inspired for decades, we'll all be anticipating your insights into why Dewey still matters. ;)
Here are some other links to online texts of Dewey's writings:
Democracy and Education ( plain running-text version of the book found at Project Gutenberg, not divided into web pages)

The rest can be found at the Questia online library. (I think you can view them without paying a monthly [$20] or annual [$99] subscription. I present them here only to suggest that most of his works are available online.

Moral Principles in Education
Book by John Dewey; Houghton Mifflin, 1909. 66 pgs.

How We Think
Book by John Dewey; D.C. Heath, 1910. 224 pgs.

German Philosophy and Politics
Book by John Dewey; Henry Holt and Company, 1915. 134 pgs.

The School and Society
Book by John Dewey; University of Chicago Press, 1920. 164 pgs.

Reconstruction in Philosophy
Book by John Dewey; H. Holt and Company, 1920. 226 pgs.

Letters from China and Japan
Book by Alice Chipman Dewey, John Dewey; E. P. Dutton Company, 1920. 311 pgs.

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
Book by John Dewey; Macmillan, 1921. 436 pgs.

Significant Paragraphs from Henry George's Progress and Poverty
Book by John Dewey; Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. 88 pgs.

The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action
Book by John Dewey; Minton, Balch & Company, 1929. 318 pgs.

Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology
Book by John Dewey; The Modern Library, 1930. 336 pgs.

The Coming of a New Party
Book by John Dewey, Paul H. Douglas; Whittlesey House, 1932. 238 pgs.

Freedom and Culture
Book by John Dewey; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. 180 pgs.

The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy: And Other Essays in Contemporary Thought
Book by John Dewey; H. Holt and Company, 1965. 309 pgs.

Philosophy & Education in Their Historic Relations
Book by J. J. Chambliss, John Dewey; Westview Press, 1993. 152 pgs.

Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays
Book by Morris Raphael Cohen, John Dewey, Charles Sanders Peirce; University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 322 pgs.

Permalink Reply by Laura Gibbs on July 28, 2007 at 9:44am

Wow, Skip, this is so exciting - I have tagged these items with the del.icio.us tag "johndewey" and there is a good long list of Dewey resources online:

http://del.icio.us/tag/johndewey

Permalink Reply by Skip Zilla on July 28, 2007 at 2:41pm

Thanks, Laura, for tagging the links. Also, I do like what Questia offers students and faculty in their online library of texts.

Permalink Reply by Laura Gibbs on August 5, 2007 at 8:12am

hi Clay, thanks for your note! KOREA: that is exciting! I used to live in the Bay area and there were some awesome Korean restaurants there. yummmm...
AP: ugh. it's just a hobby but I do a lot of Latin-language teaching materials online and the AP Latin exam is one of the greatest evils in existence. I won't bore you with the details - just to let you know that I feel your pain.........
And i found your blog - it's SUPER. I have subscribed. What great stuff. I saw your comment about why javascript keeps you using Blogger.com - me, too. I love javascript things. One of my projects when I have a little time to spare is building widgets for my classes - I keep them here:
http://SchoolhouseWidgets.com
they are built with a GENIUS tool that one of my students and I dreamed up together - you might like it!
http://RotateContent.com - you put stuff in an HTML table and it creates the javsacript (or php script) for you.
:-)

Permalink Reply by Skip Zilla on August 5, 2007 at 12:39pm

Hi Laura,
Thanks for presenting an additional marvelous side of your intelligence--the builder of widgets! Between you and Clay (and me), the advancement of javascripting ("rolling your own") may become a side benefit of this group! You've certainly got my attention. :)

Permalink Reply by Skip Zilla on August 5, 2007 at 12:33pm

Hi Clay,

I expect that the ongoing discussions that take place in this CR2.0 group will last for a long while. I am in no rush for us to finish a course of study in a conventional sense; without actual deadlines, I hope we all can dip in and out of here as that suits us. I hope we can continue to ponder and converse among ourselves in an informal way the important questions about society and education in our time from the historical perspective that Dewey's vision and work can bring to it.

I'm really not a "player" here any more than you or anyone else is. Please feel free to post a discussion starter or comment that seems relevant and timely to education and social reform today that may be analogous to what Dewey might have envisioned.

Permalink Reply by Ian Carmichael on January 6, 2008 at 6:51pm

Hi all,
Late on the scene, but the Internet Archive has a huge selection of Dewey's works. They're available on-line, and they're also downloadable, if you're like me, and want to collect your own!

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