John Dewey nos debates sobre a educação infantil (Estados Unidos, dos anos noventa do século XIX aos anos dez do século XX)

Abstract

In this research it was investigated the presence of John Dewey (1859-1952) in the debates on the child and its education in the United States, from the end of XIXth century to the first two decades of XXth century, when the kindergarten and child study movements were already opposed. The objective was to verify the process for which the ideas of Dewey regarding the child and its education had imposed itself to these two movements, and how they became victorious in the United States. By the examination of author s speeches and writings regarding the subject, it was concluded that the strategies he adopted in his trajectory toward the core of the American educational scene, as much the strategies he used in the elaboration of those speeches and writings, have been determinative for his accomplishment