 In the US, the philosophical premises of art psychology were strengthened—and given political valence—in the work of John Dewey.His "Art as Experience" was published in 1934, and was the basis for significant revisions in teaching practices whether in the kindergarten or in the university.Manuel Barkan, head of the Arts Education School of Fine and Applied Arts at Ohio State University, and one of the many pedagogues influenced by the writings of Dewey, explains, for example, in his book "The Foundations of Art Education" (1955), that the aesthetic education of children prepares the child for a life in a complex democracy.