The U.S.A. perspective -- Professor David Berliner

DAVID C. BERLINER is Regents’ Professor of Education at Arizona State University and on the summer faculty of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He has also taught at the Universities of Arizona and Massachusetts, at Teachers College and Stanford University, and at universities in Australia, The Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, and Switzerland. He is a member of the National Academy of Education, and a past president of both the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Division of Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA).

He is the winner of numerous awards, most notably the Brock award and the AERA award for distinguished contributions to education, the E. L. Thorndike award from the APA for lifetime achievements, and the NEA “Friend of Education” award for his work on behalf of the education profession.

He is co-author (with B. J. Biddle) of the best seller The manufactured crisis, co-author (with Ursula Casanova) of Putting research to work, and co-author (with N. L. Gage) of the textbook Educational psychology, now in its 6th edition. He is co-editor of the first Handbook of educational psychology and the books Talks to teachers, and Perspectives on instructional time. His newest co-authored book, with Sharon Nichols, is Collateral damage: How high-stakes testing corrupts American education. Professor Berliner has authored more than 200 published articles, technical reports, and book chapters.