Carl Bereiter
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Carl Bereiter is an education researcher, professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
, University of Toronto
(OISE/UofT) and co-director of the Education Commons at OISE/UofT, a division that integrates all information and technology services from this institute.
His areas of research are:
In collaboration with Marlene Scardamalia
, he introduced and developed the theory of "knowledge building"
. He is one of the main researchers of Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments (CSILE), the first networked system for collaborative learning http://ikit.org/fulltext/CSILE_KF.pdf. The second generation of product was renamed Knowledge Forum
.
Bereiter is one of the founders and leading researchers of the Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology, (IKIT) http://ikit.org/. His educational contributions, along with those of Ludwig Wittgenstein
, Martin Heidegger
, Jean Piaget
, Lev Vygotsky
, Michel Foucault
, Howard Gardner
, and others, are profiled in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415231264/.
He became well known for a 1966 proposal cowritten with Siegfried Engelmann on the persistent gap between inner city and middle class children in educational achievement that appeared in Teaching Disadvantaged Children in the Preschool. This position came to be called the cultural deficit hypothesis. This provoked a response by William Labov
encapsulated in a much reprinted paper called "The logic of non-standard English." that argued that cultural and linguistic difference rather than deficit lay behind much of the gap. Bereiter has claimed that he was misread by his critics.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto is a teachers' college in Toronto, Ontario.-History:OISE/UT traces its origins to the founding of the Provincial Normal School in 1847...
, University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
(OISE/UofT) and co-director of the Education Commons at OISE/UofT, a division that integrates all information and technology services from this institute.
His areas of research are:
- Knowledge Building
- Research Design
- Intentional Learning
- Instruction
- Cognitive psychology
- Educational policy
- Educational technology.
Contributions
Carl Bereiter is one of the pioneers of Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL).In collaboration with Marlene Scardamalia
Marlene Scardamalia
Marlene Scardamalia is an education researcher, professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.-Contributions:She is considered one of the pioneers in Computer-supported collaborative learning...
, he introduced and developed the theory of "knowledge building"
Knowledge building
The Knowledge Building theory was created and developed by Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia for describing what a community of learners needs to accomplish in order to create knowledge...
. He is one of the main researchers of Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments (CSILE), the first networked system for collaborative learning http://ikit.org/fulltext/CSILE_KF.pdf. The second generation of product was renamed Knowledge Forum
Knowledge Forum
Knowledge Forum is an educational software designed to help and support knowledge building communities. Previously, the product was called Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments...
.
Bereiter is one of the founders and leading researchers of the Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology, (IKIT) http://ikit.org/. His educational contributions, along with those of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947...
, Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...
, Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget was a French-speaking Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"....
, Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, the founder of cultural-historical psychology, and the leader of the Vygotsky Circle.-Biography:...
, Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
, Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner
Howard Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist who is a professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero and author of over twenty books translated into thirty languages. Since 1995, he has...
, and others, are profiled in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415231264/.
He became well known for a 1966 proposal cowritten with Siegfried Engelmann on the persistent gap between inner city and middle class children in educational achievement that appeared in Teaching Disadvantaged Children in the Preschool. This position came to be called the cultural deficit hypothesis. This provoked a response by William Labov
William Labov
William Labov born December 4, 1927) is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics...
encapsulated in a much reprinted paper called "The logic of non-standard English." that argued that cultural and linguistic difference rather than deficit lay behind much of the gap. Bereiter has claimed that he was misread by his critics.
Books by Bereiter
- Scardamalia, M., Bereiter, C. Fillion, B. (1981). Writing for Results: A Sourcebook of Consequential Composing Activities; Curriculum Series; Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (44).
- Bereiter, C., & Scardamalia, M. (1987). The psychology of written composition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Bereiter, C. and Scardamalia, M. (1989). Across the World: Reading Skills Workbook Level 3:2.
- Bereiter, C. and Scardamalia, M (1993). Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise.
- Anderson, V., Brown, A. Scardamalia, A., Campione, J. and Bereiter, C. (1995). Continuous assessment (collections for young scholars, masters/grade 3)
- Bereiter, C., Anderson,A., Brown, A., and Scardamalia, M. (1995). Reproducible Masters - Support for Teacher Tool Cards.
- Anderson, V., Brown, A., Scardamalia, M., Campione, J., and Bereiter, C. (1995). Essay and writing assessment (collections for oung scholars, masters/grade 3).
- Bereiter, C. (1997). Collections for Young Scholars: Volume 3, Book 1.
- Bereiter, C. (1997). Spelling and Vocabulary Skills Annotated Teacher's Edition Grade 5 (SRA Open Court Reading).
- Bereiter, C., Jager, M., Pressley, A. and Pressley, M. (2000). SRA Open Court Reading: Reading and Writing Workbook, Level 4, Teacher's edition.
- Koschmann, T., Scardamalia, M., Zimmerman, B.J., and Bereiter, C. (2000). Problem-based Learning: A Research Perspective on Learning Interactions.
- Bereiter, C. (2002). Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age.
- Bereiter, C. (2002). Open Court Reading Level 2 Book 2.
- Smith, B. and Bereiter, C. (2002). Liberal Education in a Knowledge Society.
- Bereiter, C., Kaplan, S.N. and Pressley, M. (2003). Open Court Classics: Level 3.
- Bereiter, C., Adams, J., Pressley, M. and Roit, M. (2004). Open Court Reading: Level 4.
- Bereiter, C., Carl (1970) Willy the Wisher and Other Thinking Stories. Open Court Publishing
See also
- Knowledge buildingKnowledge buildingThe Knowledge Building theory was created and developed by Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia for describing what a community of learners needs to accomplish in order to create knowledge...
- Knowledge ForumKnowledge ForumKnowledge Forum is an educational software designed to help and support knowledge building communities. Previously, the product was called Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments...
- OISEOiseOise is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise.-History:Oise is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...
- University of TorontoUniversity of TorontoThe University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
- Marlene ScardamaliaMarlene ScardamaliaMarlene Scardamalia is an education researcher, professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.-Contributions:She is considered one of the pioneers in Computer-supported collaborative learning...