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John Dewey is regarded as one of the most important fathers of a radical democratic understanding of education in the 20th century, as the central founder of philosophical pragmatism and, from today’s perspective, as a significant pioneer of constructivist thought (Garrison / Neubert / Reich 2016).
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Wang, L. (2019). Person, works and basic idea of John Dewey. In: John Dewey’s Democratic Education and its Influence on Pedagogy in China 1917-1937 . Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27568-6_2
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