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Introduction to John Dewey and the Alexander Technique

Learning the Alexander Technique

Writings about John Dewey and the Alexander Technique

Literature Resources

 

From the Literature:

Introduction by John Dewey to Man's Supreme Inheritance by F. Matthias Alexander

Introduction by John Dewey to Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual by F. Matthias Alexander

Introduction by John Dewey to The Use of the Self by F. Matthias Alexander

“Habits and Will” (From Human Nature and Conduct) by John Dewey

“Preoccupation with the Disconnected” by John Dewey

“Dewey and Alexander” by Frank Pierce Jones

“John Dewey and the Alexander Technique” by Jo Ann Boydston

“Human Nature and Conduct and Alexander.” An excerpt from Frederick Matthias Alexander and John Dewey: A Neglected Influence by Eric David McCormack

Excerpt from Frederick Matthias Alexander and John Dewey: A Neglected Influence by Eric David McCormack

Credit for most of the content, and the inspiration, for this John Dewey website goes to my Alexander Technique teacher, Alexander Murray. In the late 1960s, Professor Murray embarked on a research project, collecting writings concerning the John Dewey–F. M. Alexander connection. He published a compilation of these writings in the early 1990s in four booklets for Alexander Technique teachers. Reading these booklets inspired me to create this website in 1997. –Marian Goldberg

Booklet I Booklet II Booklet III Booklet IV

 

John Dewey and the Alexander Technique Index

Alexander Technique: The Insiders’ Guide

 

It [the F.M. Alexander Technique] bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities. ~ John Dewey

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