Oct292009
Magdalene Lampert selected as a Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching senior partner
Bob Brustman @ 9:04 pm
Magdalene Lampert
Magdalene Lampert, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor in Education, has been selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as one of five senior partners who will guide the development of the program’s agenda. The first topic is expected to be high failure rates among students in developmental mathematics in community colleges.
The other partners are Louis M. Gomez, the Faison Chair in Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh; James W. Stigler, professor of psychology, University of California, Los Angeles; Uri Treisman, director of the Charles A Dana Center and professor of mathematics and public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin; and Guadalupe Valdés, the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education, Stanford University.
“With the help of these partners, each of whom brings expertise to the work, Carnegie will convene the right mix of practitioners, researchers, social entrepreneurs, policy makers, and other stakeholders—including students—to map the dimensions of a problem, identify promising solutions, and to advocate and support the efforts of a community engaged in continuous evidence-based improvement,” Carnegie President Anthony S. Bryk said. “These five partners will be integral to these efforts.”
Lampert’s research has focused on understanding and portraying the world of classroom practice to the academic community, providing images of teaching practice that make the proposed reforms in mathematics education concrete, identifying elements of teaching that novices need to learn to do, and experimenting with interactive multimedia tools for both analyzing and representing the work of teaching. She is assisting the Carnegie Foundation in focusing its attention on learning teaching, drawing from her current work investigating how teacher education can be structured to enable learning in, from, and for practice.
