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D-Index
59
Citations
39687
World Ranking
1507
National Ranking
84

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1967 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Carl Bereiter is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research work spans across fields such as Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, and Computer Science Applications. The subfields represented in their publications reflect a multidisciplinary approach to studying learning processes and educational technologies.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • E-Learning and Knowledge Management
  • Online and Blended Learning
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development

Carl Bereiter has contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Qwerty
  • Educational Technology Research and Development
  • Computer-supported collaborative learning/"The Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Bereiter are:

  • "Knowledge building: aligning education with needs for knowledge creation in the digital age" (2021), published in Educational Technology Research and Development
  • "Will knowledge building remain uniquely human?" (2020), published in Qwerty
  • "Infrastructuring for Knowledge Building" (2023), published in Computer-supported collaborative learning/"The Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference"
  • "Editorial The 'new normality': Digital technologies and learning environments beyond the emergency" (2022), published in Qwerty

Frequent collaborators in their work include the following co-authors:

  • Marlene Scardamalia
  • Katerine Bielaczyc
  • Seng Chee Tan
  • Carol K. K. Chan
  • Leanne Ma

In addition to journal and conference publications, Carl Bereiter has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Aeres Hogeschool eBooks called "In gesprek met Frank" in 2023.

Their academic career has also been recognized historically with an award as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, granted in 1967.

Best Publications

  • The psychology of written composition

    Carl Bereiter;Marlene Scardamalia

  • Computer Support for Knowledge-Building Communities

    Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

  • Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age

    Carl Bereiter

  • Teaching disadvantaged children in the preschool

    Carl Bereiter;Siegfried Engelmann

  • Knowledge Building: Theory, Pedagogy, and Technology

    Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

  • Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise

    Carl Bereiter;Marlene Scardamalia

  • Intentional Learning as a Goal of Instruction

    Carl Bereiter;Marlene Scardamalia

  • Higher Levels of Agency for Children in Knowledge Building: A Challenge for the Design of New Knowledge Media

    Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

  • Computer-Supported Intentional Learning Environments

    Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter;Robert S. McLean;Jonathan Swallow

  • The CSILE project: Trying to bring the classroom into World 3.

    Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter;Mary Lamon

  • Use of Thinking Aloud in Identification and Teaching of Reading Comprehension Strategies

    Carl Bereiter;Marlene Bird

  • Dos modelos explicativos de los procesos de composición escrita

    Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

  • Teachability of reflective processes in written composition

    Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter;Rosanne Steinbach

  • Toward a Solution of the Learning Paradox

    Carl Bereiter

  • Knowledge Building as a Mediator of Conflict in Conceptual Change

    Carol Chan;Jud Burtis;Carl Bereiter

  • Liberal education in a knowledge society

    Smith, Barry, Ph. D.;Carl Bereiter

  • Implications of postmodernism for science, or, science as progressive discourse

    Carl Bereiter

  • Constructivism, Socioculturalism, and Popper's World 3:

    Carl Bereiter

  • Technologies for knowledge-building discourse

    Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

  • Text-Based and Knowledge Based Questioning by Children

    Marlene Scardamalia;Carl Bereiter

Frequent Co-Authors

Marlene Scardamalia
Marlene Scardamalia University of Toronto
Kai Hakkarainen
Kai Hakkarainen University of Helsinki
Ulrike Cress
Ulrike Cress Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Ching Sing Chai
Ching Sing Chai Chinese University of Hong Kong
Timothy Koschmann
Timothy Koschmann Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Chin Chung Tsai
Chin Chung Tsai National Taiwan Normal University
Frank Fischer
Frank Fischer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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