Since 1936
The John Dewey Society’s 2023 Annual Meeting was held in Chicago from March 2 to March 4. Special thank you to Ross Jordan, Curatorial Manager at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Our one-day event at Hull House was inspiring, thanks in no small part to the hospitality and guidance provided by Ross.
The Residents' Dining Hall at Hull-House Museum, a beautiful Arts and Crafts building that has welcomed some of the world's most important thinkers, artists and activists, including participants in the 2023 annual meeting.
The 2022 annual meeting of the John Dewey Society took place at the Centro Cultural de la Raza, in San Diego, California, with a theme of “Border Justice and InterAmerican Cooperation.”
Thank you to our 2022 John Dewey Memorial Symposiasts: K. Wayne Yang, (University of California at San Diego), David Morales (Stanford University), Caroline Collins (University of California at San Diego), Stanley Rodriguez (President of the Board of Kumeyaay Community College)
Thank you to Christopher Tirres, the 2022 John Dewey Memorial Lecture, for this engaging lecture, “Spiritual Healing on the Border: Lessons in Art, Culture, and Education”
The John Dewey Society was happy to partner with Shelburne Farms for their 2021 annual meeting. Shelburne Farms is an education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future. Their breath-taking home campus is a 1,400-acre working farm located on the unceded, traditional, and contemporary homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.
The grave of John Dewey on the University of Vermont campus. A quiet place to re-dedicate ourselves to the struggle for a just, democratic, and humane society.
The purpose of the John Dewey Society is to foster intelligent inquiry into problems pertaining to the place and function of education in social change, and to share, discuss, and disseminate the results of such studies. The Society maintains three active journals and holds an annual meeting that features work in the fields of philosophy and education. JDS provides a space for building and sustaining a network of scholars, teachers, and community activists dedicated to democratic social change.
The John Dewey Society grew out of a series of discussions held as early as 1934. Originally called "The Association for the Study of Education in its Social Aspects," the name was changed to the John Dewey Society in early 1936. JDS 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.
Join the John Dewey Society by clicking on the "Join“ tab. Special thanks to the Tanner Foundation. New members will receive two classic books: John Dewey’s "The Sources of a Science of Education" and Dan Tanner’s "Crusade for Democracy: Progressive Education at the Crossroads." Tanner’s book provides a detailed history of the John Dewey Society.
ÉVORA, PORTUGAL - The 2024 Annual Meeting of the John Dewey Society will take place at the Universidade de Évora from June 5th to June 7th, 2024.
Dewey, Education, and the Mediterranean: Themes, Trails, and Traces Volume Editors: Maura Striano and Ronald G. Sultana
Please join us for the 2024 Annual Meeting, to be held in Évora, Portugal from June 5th to June 7th, 2024, at the Universidade de Évora (https://www.uevora.pt/en). A Call for […]
Christopher Tirres – Spiritual Healing on the Border: Lessons in Art, Culture, and Education