Andrea diSessa
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Andrea diSessa is an education researcher who was one of the developers of the Logo programming language[1] and coauthored the book Turtle Geometry about Logo. He has also authored highly cited research papers on the epistemology of physics,[2] educational experimentation,[3] and constructivist analysis of knowledge,[4] and the book Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy (MIT Press, 2000). He also created the Boxer Programming Environment, with Hal Abelson of MIT.
DiSessa received an A.B. in Physics from Princeton University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975.[5] He is currently Evelyn Lois Corey Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley and has been a member of the National Academy for Education since 1995.[1][5][6]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Gazette, UC Berkeley, December 6, 1995.
- ^ DiSessa, A. (1993), “Towards an epistemology of physics”, Cognition and Instruction 10 (2–3): 105–225, DOI 10.1207/s1532690xci1002&3_2.
- ^ Cobb, P.; Confrey, J.; DiSessa, A.; Lehrer, R. & Schauble, L. (2003), “Design experiments in educational research”, Educational Researcher 32 (1): 9–13.
- ^ DiSessa, A. (1988), “Knowledge in pieces”, in Forman, G. & Pufall, P., Constructivism in the Computer Age, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 49–70; Smith, John P., III; DiSessa, A. & Roschelle, J. (1994), “Misconceptions reconceived: a constructivist analysis of knowledge in transition”, Journal of the Learning Sciences 3 (2): 115–163, DOI 10.1207/s15327809jls0302_1.
- ^ a b DiSessa's c.v. at UC Berkeley.
- ^ National Academy of Education members, retrieved May 28, 2008.
