Bridging the Trad/Prog Divide in Education - A Conversation with Professor Daniel T. Willingham

Professor Daniel T. Willingham earned his B.A. from Duke
University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from
Harvard University in 1990. He is currently Professor of
Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught
since 1992. Until about 2000, his research focused solely on the
brain basis of learning and memory. Today, all of his research
concerns the application of cognitive psychology to K-16
education. Daniel writes the “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” column
for American Educator magazine, in which he has translated
relevant cognitive science research for educators since 2003. He
is also a prolific author whose writing on education has appeared
in seventeen languages. His classic book, Why Don't Students Like
School?, has recently been republished in its second edition with
additional material. He has also written When Can You Trust the
Experts?, Raising Kids Who Read, and The Reading
Mind. His forthcoming book (set for release in August 2022)
is entitled Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You
Can Make It Easy, this time directed at students themselves to
support them to develop their self-management and study
skills.  In 2017, Professor Willingham was appointed by
President Obama to serve as a Member of the National Board for
Education Sciences.


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