John Dewey Society - A social network for keeping Dewey's ideas alive in practice

A social network for keeping Dewey's ideas alive in practice

Keeping "alive...the use of critical and reflective intelligence in the search for solutions to crucial problems in education and culture,"

The web page of the John Dewey Society is here: http://johndeweysociety.org

The blog of the Commission on Social Issues is here: http://deweycsi.blogspot.com

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Roger Belling replied to Roger Belling's discussion 'Help with quotations'

Thank you for your kind comments. I may have an argument with my spotty old age memory more than with Ethics theory. What I clearly remember, rightly or wrongly, is that I did read 3 books on ethics: Dewey & Tufts, Kropotkin, and Oderberg, and concl…

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SCOTT ZAGORIA replied to Roger Belling's discussion 'Help with quotations'

Let me try again. From p. 259. I don't suspect this is exactly what R.B. had in mind, but perhaps it relates at least peripherally: "Formally" and "materially" good or bad are terms also employed to denote the same distinction. (See Sidgwick, Histo…

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Craig A. Cunningham replied to Roger Belling's discussion 'Help with quotations'

uh, scott....it's dewey's ethics we're interested in here, not aristotle's. :-)

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SCOTT ZAGORIA commented on Craig A. Cunningham's blog post 'The educational value of video games'

I forget nothing, Craig. I'm insatiable in my capability to recollect at least one fragment of everything I experience. For what it's worth, that might be regarded in a fashion as 'psychic metalearning' and I assume it is a formidably successful cha…

February 2

SCOTT ZAGORIA replied to Roger Belling's discussion 'Help with quotations'

happy to oblige...i think this might be what you're looking for anyway...the final sentence on p. 53 into the first sentence on p. 54: http://books.google.com/books?id=btsFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA54&dq=ethics+is+only+what+people+were+able+to+agree+on+at+a+cer…

February 2

Craig A. Cunningham replied to Roger Belling's discussion 'Help with quotations'

In LW 7 (Ethics), 1932, p. 151, Dewey approvingly quotes William Graham Sumner's Folkways in saying that "ethos meant the 'sum of the characteristic usages, ideas, standards, and codes by which a group was differentiated and individualized in charac…

February 2

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When did you first discover your interest in Dewey?

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Draft program for John Dewey Society Annual Meeting, 2010

Please note: this is a draft, copiled by JDS President Lynda Stone:

John Dewey Society SIG
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
Friday, April 30 to Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Denver

DRAFT PROGRAM

1
Dewey Society SIG Special Business Meeting
Friday, April 30; 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Arrangements to be announced

2
The John Dewey Society SIG Annual Symposium

In the Spirit of Dewey: Educational Philosophers Consider Societal Crises

Sharon Todd (Stockholm University)
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Posted by Craig A. Cunningham on January 8, 2010 at 9:44am

The educational value of video games

In a blog post at http://technopaideia.blogspot.com, I suggested that video games have a lot to teach teachers about education. This post found its way into a Facebook Note (the wonders of RSS), and a discussion ensued in which our own Len Waks basically said "video games are dope." I challenged him on this, and he directed me to a 2001 Ed Theory article… Continue

Posted by Craig A. Cunningham on June 20, 2009 at 9:57am — 3 Comments