Lectures

The John Dewey Lecture is given annually at the John Dewey Society annual meeting (held in conjunction with the American Educational Research Association) and again at Teachers College.

The lecture includes the opportunity to publish a book with Teachers College Press.

This is a partial list of the lectures. Those that have been published are designated with an asterisk (*).

*1958 Ordway Tead, The Climate of Learning

*1959 Oscar Handlin, John Dewey's Challenge to Education

*1960 Seymour Harris, More Resources for Education

*1961 Gardner Murphy, Freeing Intelligenee Through Teaching

*1962 Loren Eiseley, The Mind as Nature

*1963 Freeman Butts, American Education in International Development

*1965 Houston Smith, Condemned to Meaning

*1966 Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science

*1967 Robert Schaeffer, The School as a Center ofInquiry

*1968 Donald N. Michael, The Unprepared Society

*1970 Bentley Glass, The Timely and the Timeless

*1971 Robert Nisbet, The Degradation of the Academic Dogma

*1973 Theodosius Dobzhansky, Human Equality and Genetic Diversity

*1976 Lawrence A. Cremin, Public Education

*1977 David Hawkins, The Science and Ethics of Equality

*1981 Harry S. Broudy, Truth and Credibility

*1982 Elliott W. Eisner, Cognition and Curriculum

*1984 C.A. Bowers, The Promise of Theory

*1984 Thomas F. Green, The Formation of Conscience in an Age of Technology

*1986 James Gouinlock, Excellence in Public Discourse

*1988 Elise Boulding, Building a Global Civic Culture

*1988 Maxine Greene, The Dialectic of Freedom

1988 Frederick Crews

1989 Clayborn Carson

1990 Donald Schon

*1991 Nel Noddings, Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief

*1992 Michael W. Apple, Cultural Politics and Education

1993 Wayne Urban

*1994 John Goodlad, In Praise of Education

1995 Lee Shulman

*1996 Jane Roland Martin  Cultural Miseducation

1997 Thomas Alexander

1998 Charlene Seigfried

*1999 Philip W. Jackson  John Dewey and the Philosopher's Task

2000 Morton White

2001 David Berliner

2002 Eliott Eisner

*2003 Jeannie Oakes and John Rogers, Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Social Justice

2004 Benjamin Barber

2005 Herbert M. Kleibard

2006 Walter Feinberg

2007 Charlene Haddock Seigfried

2008 Pedro A. Noguera

2009 Angela Valenzuela

2010 Denis Phillips

2011 Madeleine Arnot


Outstanding Achievement Award


Since 1992, the John Dewey Society has also given an annual award for Outstanding Achievement. A list of winners is below.


1992 Maxine Greene

1993 Ralph Tyler and Arthur Wirth

1994 Harold Taylor and Deborah Meier

1995 Richard Bernstein

1996 Alice Miel

1997 Patricia Grahm

1998 Thomas Green

1999 Philip Jackson and Herbert Kliebard

2000 Vivian Paley

2001 Louise Rosenblatt

2002 Thomas Alexander

2003 Benjamin Barber

2004 John McDermott

2005 Charlene Haddock Seigfried

2006 Jim Garrison

2007 David Hansen

2008 Steven C. Rockefeller

2011 Nel Noddings and Eliot Eisner