Reading List

The on-site resources of the Center for Dewey Studies include works by and about John Dewey as well as writings by a few of his contemporaries.  The annotated reading list below provides an overview of some of the resources available within Dewey scholarship.  If you are interested in a particular area of Dewey's work and do not find it within the suggested readings, please do not hesitate to contact the Center with your inquires.

The Reading List is divided into the following categories:

• Inquiry
• Ethics
• The Individual and the Society
• Education
• Democracy
• Further Reading:  Works About Dewey
• A Short List of Readings about Dewey in Relation to the Arts 

"Faith in education signifies nothing less than belief in the possibility of deliberate direction of the formation of human disposition and intelligence. It signifies a belief that it is possible to know definitely just what specific conditions and forces operate to bring about just such and such specific results in character, intellectual attitude and capacity."