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Robert Bruce Raup (March 21, 1888 – April 13, 1976), was a Professor in the

Philosophy of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. He was a well-known writer in the 1930s, whose writings were influenced by his own teacher and mentor, the American philosopher John Dewey. Like his mentor, Professor Raup is often associated with the pedagogical
concept of promoting practical (i.e. pragmatic) judgment as something appropriate and necessary within the context of a modern democratic society. He was best known for his criticism of the American public education system, which he claimed was inadequate and ineffective in its methods.

Life

R. Bruce Raup was born in

Carlinville, Illinois. In 1921, he entered graduate studies at Teachers College, Columbia University where he was a student of John Dewey. It was there he met and married Clara Eliot
on August 23, 1924. Raup earned a Ph.D. from Teachers College in 1926, and remained there until his retirement in 1953.

Raup was actively involved in many professional associations, including: the American Philosophical Association, the National Education Association, the National Society of College Teachers of Education, and the Progressive Education Association. He was President of the Philosophy of Education Society in 1941. He also served on the Federal Council of Churches in America's Committee on Education and Research.

Raup was instrumental in organizing and establishing several of the foundation courses in the Teachers College curriculum, including: Character and Moral Judgment in Education, Education in American Culture, and Education as Personal Development.

For his contribution to American educational theory, Raup received the Nicholas Murray Butler Medal in Silver from Columbia University.

Robert and Clara Raup had four children:

Joan Eliot Raup (b. 1926), Ruth Mitchell Raup (b. 1927), Robert Bruce Raup, Jr. (b. 1929), and Charlotte Cranch Raup (b. 1933). Joan became a noted statistician, and Charlotte married Columbia University historian Lawrence A. Cremin
.

Raup lived most of his years at Teachers College at his nearby country residence in

Palo Alto
, California. He died in Palo Alto on April 13, 1976. He was, at that time, 88 years old.

The

ecologist, and geographer, Hugh M. Raup
(1901—1995) was his younger brother.

Bibliography

  • Complacency: The Foundation of Human Behavior (1925)
  • Toward a New Education (1930)
  • Problems in Philosophy of Education (1932)
  • Education and Organized Interests in America (1936)
  • The Discipline of Practical Judgment (1943)
  • Method in Judgments of Practice, The Journal of Philosophy, Volume XLVI, No. 26 (1949)
  • The Improvement of Practical Intelligence: The Central Task of Education (1950).

See also

References

  • Obituary of Robert Raup, New York Times, April 15, 1976.
  • Ohles, F., Ohles, S. M., Ramsay, J. G. 1997. Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

External links

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