ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the influence of John Dewey on the field of Comparative Education from the perspective of the declining centrality of the nation-state as a controlling element in social, political and economic changes around the world. The philosopher John Dewey foresaw the possibility of developments in the early 20th century. In 1904, John Dewey left the University of Chicago where he had founded the university’s laboratory school, the most important experimental progressive school in the country, to come to Columbia University. Dewey’s philosophy, emphasizing the ‘full social ends’ of education, had a deep and long-lasting influence on the development of public education in Mexico. Dewey’s writings about his travel were reprinted in the New Republic at the time and are a basis of scholarship in the Americas, East Asia, Western and Eastern Europe. Dewey’s legacy for the students of Teachers College at that time, according to Johnson, was as a pedagogue more than as a philosopher.
