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"I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience."
--John Dewey, My Pedagogic Creed, 1897

Mission and Purpose of the John Dewey Society

Founded in 1935, the John Dewey Society exists to keep alive John Dewey's commitment to the use of critical and reflective intelligence in the search for solutions to crucial problems in education and culture. We subscribe to no doctrine, but in the spirit of Dewey, we welcome controversy, respect dissent, and encourage the responsible discussions of issues of special concern to educators. We also promote open-minded, critical reconsiderations of Dewey's influential ideas about democracy, education, and philosophy.

Additional information about the John Dewey Society is available
at the bottom of this page and ia the links above.

The Society now has a NING--a site for social networking among JDS members:
check it out at http://johndeweysociety.ning.com.

The next meeting of the John Dewey Soceity will be at the 2009 Annual Meeting held in San Diego from April 13 to April 17 in conjunction with American Educational Research Society.

Click here for the John Dewey Society program at the 2009 annual conference.

Click on the year for a list of JDS-sponsored sessinns and events at that year's meeting:

The "Commission on Social Issues" has started a blog. You can find it at http://deweycsi.blogspot.com.

More information about the Commission is available here.

  • We now have a "JOBS" page. Contact the Web Builder to add job postings that might be of interest to our interdisciplinary, progressive members.

Members receive announcements, requests for papers and reports of Society activities; copies of Insights (our society newsletter) and Education and Culture, a peer-reviewed journal ( both written by and for members); and book-length publications of the annual John Dewey Lecture. We meet and provide a program of papers, symposia, and round tables at the American Educational Research Association and offer the John Dewey Memorial Lecture on topical issues at Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. A subscription to Educational Theory is available at reduced rates. For more information or to become a member, see Becoming a Member.

Current officers of the John Dewey Society are listed on the Contact page.

This web site is constructed and maintained by Craig A. Cunningham of National-Louis University in Chicago. Please send comments/suggestions to craig.cunningham_at_nl.edu.

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