Eleanor Duckworth Philosopher
Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (born 1935) is a teacher, teacher educator, and educational theorist.Duckworth earned her Ph.D. (Docteur en sciences de l'éducation) at the Université de Genève in 1977. She grounds her work in Jean Piaget and Bärbel Inhelder's insights into the nature and development of understanding and intelligence and in their clinical interview method. Duckworth also has been an elementary school teacher. Her participation in the 1960s curriculum development projects Elementary Science Study and African Primary Science Program was germinal for her insights and practices in exploratory methods in teaching and learning. She has conducted teacher education and program evaluation in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia and her native Canada. Duckworth is also a coordinator with Cambridge United for Justice with Peace and a performing modern dancer.
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Eleanor Duckworth on Wikipedia
External resources
- http://edrev.asu.edu/reviews/rev42.htm
- http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/multimedia/confusion-play-and-postponing-certainty-eleanor-duckworth-harvard-thinks-big
- http://susanjeanmayer.com/criticalexploration.php
- http://thunder1.cudenver.edu/cye_journal/review.pl?n=66
- http://vimeo.com/22623094
- http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el_199103_meek.pdf
- http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED171741
- http://www.exeter.edu/documents/Exeter_Bulletin/listening_sp07.pdf
- http://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty_research/profiles/profile.shtml?vperson_id=313
- http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-impact/2012/05/commencement-2012-professor-eleanor-duckworths-convocation-speech