John Dewey

John Dewey was a philosopher, psychologist, and educational thinker who connected inquiry with experience and democratic life. Democracy and Education presents learning as a social process: schools do more than transmit information when they give people practice in communication, participation, and reflective action. The Child and the Curriculum considers how a learner's experience can meet organised subject matter, while Moral Principles in Education places ethical development within school life.

How We Think follows reflection from uncertainty through observation, evidence, and tested judgment. Human Nature and Conduct turns to habit, impulse, and the social settings in which character takes shape. Together, these books show why Dewey resisted rigid divisions between theory and practice. Democracy and Education supplies the broad educational argument; How We Think concentrates on the discipline of inquiry.