Editing John Dewey (section)

=== Visit to Southern Africa ===
Dewey and his daughter Jane went to [[South Africa]] in July 1934, at the invitation of the World Conference of New Education Fellowship in [[Cape Town]] and [[Johannesburg]], where he delivered several talks. The conference was opened by the South African Minister of Education [[Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894-1948)|Jan Hofmeyr]], and Deputy Prime Minister [[Jan Smuts]]. Other speakers at the conference included [[Max Eiselen]] and [[Hendrik Verwoerd]], who later became prime minister of the [[National Party (South Africa)|Nationalist]] government that introduced [[apartheid]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kraak |first1=Andre |title=Education in Retrospect: Policy and Implementation since 1990 |last2=Young |first2=Michael |date=2001 |publisher=Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria |isbn=978-0-7969-1988-5}}</ref>

Dewey's expenses were paid by the [[Carnegie Corporation of New York|Carnegie Foundation]]. He also traveled to [[Durban]], [[Pretoria]] and [[Victoria Falls]] in what was then [[Southern Rhodesia]] (now [[Zimbabwe]]) and looked at schools, talked to pupils, and gave lectures to the administrators and teachers. In August 1934, Dewey accepted an honorary degree from the [[University of the Witwatersrand]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Martin |first1=Jay |url=https://archive.org/details/educationofjohnd00mart/page/406 |title=The Education of John Dewey |date=2002 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-11676-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/educationofjohnd00mart/page/406 406] |url-access=registration}}</ref> The white-only governments rejected Dewey's ideas as too secular. However black people and their white supporters were more receptive.<ref>Paulus J. Mentz, "The Influence of John Dewey on Curriculum Development in South Africa" (ERIC Number: ED349654 1992) [https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED349654.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023003536/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED349654.pdf |date=October 23, 2020 }}.</ref>