Evelyn Dewey

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Evelyn Riggs Dewey (1889โ€“1965), was an education reformer and social activist and author of several books on education. Prior to her education work she was involved in the Women's Trade Union League, particularly concerning the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909. She was the daughter of the philosopher, psychologist and education reformer John Dewey and the educator Alice Chipman Dewey.

Life and work

Dewey was born in 1889, the second of six children born to the educationalists John Dewey and Alice Chipman Dewey.[1][2] In 1909, she was studying at Barnard College, New York City, during time she was involved in the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) and supported the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909.

Evelyn traveled in Europe with her parents, visiting

learning by doing' is first used to describe the educational approach taken in some of the schools that the Deweys admired.[4]

Around the time of the publication of Schools of To-Morrow Evelyn Dewey started working administering

Bureau of Educational Experiments (BEE), of which Evelyn Dewey was one of 12 charter members.[1] At the BEE Dewey ran experiments renovating rural schools and running school farms, which she reported in her 1920 book New Schools for Old.[5]

Dewey left the BEE in 1919, and worked on editing her parents' Letters from China and Japan.[1][6] She was married in 1932 to Granville Smith Jr., and continued to speak and write on education in the 1920s and 30s under her maiden name.[1] She died in 1965.

Publications

  • Dewey, John; Dewey, Evelyn (1915). Schools Of To-morrow. New York: E. P. Dutton – via Internet Archive. [7]
  • Dewey, Evelyn (1919). New schools for old: the regeneration of the Porter School. New York: E. P. Dutton – via Internet Archive.[8]
  • E.P. Dutton – via Project Gutenberg.[9]
  • Dewey, Evelyn; Child, Emily;
    E.P. Dutton – via Internet Archive. [10]
  • Dewey, Evelyn (1922). The Dalton Laboratory Plan. London:
    J.M. Dent Sons – via Internet Archive. [11]
  • Dewey, Evelyn; Glover, Katherine (1934). Children of the New Day. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc. – via Google Books. [12]
  • Dewey, Evelyn (1935). Behavior Development in Infants. A Survey of the Literature on Prenatal and Postnatal Activity, 1920-1934. New York: Columbia University Press – via Google Books. [13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Staring, Jeroen; Aldridge, Jerry (2014). "Out of the Shadows: Redeeming the Contributions of Evelyn Dewey to Education and Social Justice (1909-1919)" (PDF). Case Studies Journal. 3 (11): 21โ€“33. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  2. ^ from The Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages
  3. ^ a b Stack, Sam (2009). "Alice Chipman Dewey (1858-1927): Still A Mystery?" (PDF). Journal of Philosophy and History of Education. 59: 28โ€“37. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  4. S2CID 158230103
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  5. ^ .Dewey, Evelyn (1920). New schools for old: the regeneration of the Porter School. New York: E.P. Dutton.
  6. ^ Dewey, John; Chipman Dewey, Alice (1920). Dewey, Evelyn (ed.). Letters from China and Japan. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
  7. OCLC 917898405
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  8. OCLC 645142985
    . Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  9. OCLC 576627
    . Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  10. OCLC 944374798
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  11. OCLC 945173997
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  12. OCLC 877261474
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  13. OCLC 352239964
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