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John Dewey

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Brick, B. (2008) John Dewey and the New Definition of Individual Responsibility. America Educational History Journal, 35, 117-130 The article, John Dewey and the New Definition of Individual Responsibility, discusses how Dewey’s opinion of individualism has both positive and negative aspects. Dewey first thought about individualism in a religious way. The individual was not really in control of their “knowing,” but a higher being operated through them. However, when political and economic individualism came about after the 16th century, his beliefs began to change. He then thought that individuals were able to achieve knowledge for themselves. Before Dewey, Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann believed that “the development of mind
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