Name Carl Bereiter | ||
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Education University of Wisconsin-Madison (1959) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Books Education and Mind in the Kn, The psychology of written, Surpassing ourselves, Open Court Reading: Grade 1, Collections for Young Scholars Similar People Marlene Scardamalia, Siegfried Engelmann, Peter Hilton, Marilyn Jager Adams, Andrew Biemiller | ||
Module 1.3 - Carl Bereiter's book - Education and Mind in a Knowledge Age
Carl Bereiter is an education researcher, professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto known for his research into knowledge building.
Contents
- Module 13 Carl Bereiters book Education and Mind in a Knowledge Age
- Inside the academy carl bereiter
- Contributions
- Books by Bereiter
- References
Inside the academy carl bereiter
Contributions
His areas of research are:
Carl Bereiter is one of the pioneers of Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). 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. 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). 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.
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.