Carl Edward Bereiter (born 1930) is an American education researcher, professor emeritus at the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) is Canada's only all-graduate institute of teaching, learning and research, located in Toronto, Ontario. It is located directly above the St. George subway sta ...
,
University of Toronto
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known for his research into
knowledge building
The Knowledge Building (KB) 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. The theory addresses the need to educate people for ...
.
Biography
He was born and raised in Wisconsin and entered
Wisconsin University, where he was awarded B.A. in 1951, M.A. in 1952 and a Ph.D in 1959.
In 1961 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, before moving his current position as Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Since 1996 he is also held the position of Co-Director, Programs and Research, Education Commons.
He was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
in 1967.
Contributions
His areas of research are:
* Knowledge building
*
Knowledge age
*
Knowledge worker
Knowledge workers are workers whose main capital is knowledge. Examples include programmers, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, scientists, design thinkers, public accountants, lawyers, editors, and academics, whose job is to "thin ...
s
* Research design
*
Intentional learning
* Instruction
* Cognitive psychology
* Educational policy
* Educational technology.
Carl Bereiter is one of the pioneers of
Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). In collaboration with
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. Other areas of r ...
, 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
Collaborative learning is a situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together.Dillenbourg, P. (1999). Collaborative Learning: Cognitive and Computational Approaches. Advances in Learning and Instruction Series. New ...
. The second generation of product was renamed
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 (CSILE). It was designed for a short period of time by ...
.
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
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,
Martin Heidegger
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,
Jean Piaget
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,
Lev Vygotsky
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,
Michel Foucault
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,
Howard Gardner
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, and others, are profiled in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education.
He became well known for a 1966 proposal cowritten with
Siegfried Engelmann
Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann (November 26, 1931 – February 15, 2019) was an American educationalist who co-developed the approach to instruction termed " Direct Instruction" (DI). Engelmann was Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Or ...
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 ( ; 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 ...
encapsulated in a much reprinted paper called "The logic of non-standard English."
[The logic of non-standard English. In J. Alatis (ed.), Georgetown Monograph on Languages and Linguistics 22. Pp. 1-44] 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 young 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
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Knowledge building
The Knowledge Building (KB) 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. The theory addresses the need to educate people for ...
*
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 (CSILE). It was designed for a short period of time by ...
*
OISE
Oise ( ; ; pcd, Oése) is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called ''Oisiens'' () or ''Isariens'', after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had a population of 829,419 ...
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University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...
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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. Other areas of r ...
References
External links
Carl Bereiter at IKITRecent book "Education and mind in knowledge age"
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1930 births
Canadian educators
Educational psychologists
Canadian psychologists
Canadian educational theorists
People from Wisconsin
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Living people