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• John Dewey - John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher and educator whose writings and teachings have had profound influences on education in the United States. Dewey's philosophy of education, instrumentalism (also called pragmatism), focused on learning-by-doing rather than rote learning and dogmatic instruction, the current practice of his day.
• Of Chickens and Projects - A project-based curriculum is intended to improve the environment for learning in schools -- to give students a fuller spectrum of opportunities for building their strength and confidence as learners.
• Paulo Freire and Informal Education - Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century, Freire has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed.
• Teaching Science - Thoughts on inquiry approaches to learning and teaching science.
• The Foxfire Approach to Teaching and Learning: John Dewey, Experiential Learning, and the Core Practices. ERIC Digest. - Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which examines the experiental learning theories of John Dewey and applies them to the Foxfire readers.

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