Each year the John Dewey Society acknowledges achievement in four categories. These include: Outstanding Achievement (the outstanding achievement – publication or project – by a member or friend of the Society) issued within the last two years; Lifetime Achievement (awarded to a member of friend of the Society for a body of work over time that represents the substance and spirit of JDS); the JDS/Educational Theory Outstanding Paper (honoring a paper presented at the annual conference); and the JDS Outstanding Graduate Student Paper (honoring a paper authored by a grad student at the conference.) See below for the current year awardees and for the awardees over time in each category.
2025 Annual Awards
JDS is pleased to congratulate the 2025 Award Winners:
Gert Biesta, Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award, for reflecting the spirit and vision of John Dewey through a lifetime of accumulated scholarship exemplifying the connections between educational practice, educational theory, and the public sphere.
John Stuhr, Outstanding Achievement Award, for his book, No Professor’s Lectures Can Save Us: William James’ Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism & Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Andrea Fiore, JDS/ET Outstanding Paper Award
Leyla Abassi, Outstanding Graduate Student Paper
Congratulations, all!
JDS Outstanding Achievement Awards
Since 1992, the John Dewey Society has recognized an outstanding contribution to the goals of the society in scholarship or practice.
2025 – John Stuhr
2024 – Sarah Stitzlein
2023 – No recipient named
2022 – Lisa Heldke and Cynthia Belliveau
2021 – Marilyn Fischer
2020 – Greg Seals
2019 – Wayne Jennings
2018 – George Wood
2017 – Kyle Greenwalt
2016 – Richard Milner
2015 – Jason Irizarry
2014 – Walter Feinberg
2013 – Jane Roland Martin
2012 – Larry Hickman and Jo Ann Boydston
2011 – Nel Noddings and Eliot Eisner
2008 – Steven C. Rockefeller
2007 – David Hansen
2006 – Jim Garrison
2005 – Charlene Haddock Seigfried
2004 – John McDermott
2003 – Benjamin Barber
2002 – Thomas Alexander
2001 – Louise Rosenblatt
2000 – Vivian Paley
1999 – Philip Jackson and Herbert Kliebard
1998 – Thomas Green, Outstanding Achievement
1997 – Patricia Grahm, Outstanding Achievement
1996 – Alice Miel, Outstanding Achievement
1995 – Richard Bernstein, Outstanding Achievement
1994 – Harold Taylor and Deborah Meier, Outstanding Achievement
1993 – Ralph Tyler and Arthur Wirth, Outstanding Achievement
1992 – Maxine Greene, Outstanding Achievement
JDS Lifetime Achievement Award
Since 2015, the John Dewey Society has conferred a Lifetime Achievement Award to those who reflect the spirit and vision of John Dewey through a lifetime of accumulated scholarship exemplifying the connections between educational practice, educational theory, and the public sphere.
2025 – Gert Biesta
2024 – David Hansen
2023 – Jim Garrison
2022 – Daniel Tanner
2021 – Harry Boyte
2020 – Denis Phillips
2019 – Roger T. Ames
2019 – Barbara Stengel
2018 – Lynda Stone
2017 – Leonard Waks
2016 – Ken Howe
2015 – Dennis Littky
JDS/Educational Theory Outstanding Paper
2025 – Andrea Fiore
2024 – Joshua Forstenzer, for “Do the Unexpected! Why Deweyan Educators Should Be Pluralists about Political Tactics and Strategies”
2023 – Andrea Fiore, for “Dewey on Familiarity in Education, Aesthetics and Art”
JDS Outstanding Graduate Student Paper
2025 – Leyla Abassi
2024 – Jonathan Bowen & Manpreet Rau
2023 – Michal Wieczorek, for “Dewey’s Notion of Intelligent Habit as a Basis for Ethical Assessment of Technology”