Dr. David Berliner
As a global education leader, David Berliner, Regent’s Professor of Education at Arizona State University in Tempe, was invited back for another summer to not only speak at the 2008 Summer Institute, but also to teach our leadership students at SFU.
At the Summer Institute on July 7th, Berliner spoke about teachers as activists and why the public needs to gain more knowledge about the teacher’s profession, how their roles are actively changing as technology changes and why it affects the schooling for our future youth. “That means that teachers need to be more politically active to ensure that we always maintain the public’s support,” says Dr. Berliner. “Changing one’s conception of one’s role is difficult, but 20 years from now I expect classrooms will look quite differently than they do now. It would be nice if teachers lead the movement toward change instead of resisting it.”
Paul Shaker, Dean of Education, had invited Berliner to participate in the Summer Institute two years ago. After teaching two courses during the summer in 2007 on education leadership at SFU, he was invited back to teach for the next few years during the summer semesters. Currently at SFU, David is teaching a course on the philosophy of social sciences and the history of educational psychology. He is also training scholars and leaders on educational psychology when he is not in the classroom.
To view David Berliner’s presentation at the 2008 Summer Institute, please visit: http://sc-epresence.surrey.sfu.ca/epresenceserver/archives/2008_jul8_633511165382968750/?c=1media=qt&archiveID=53&startTime
To learn more about Collateral Damage, please visit: http://www.educ.sfu.ca/highlights/collateral-damage.html
To learn more about David Berliner, please visit: https://sec.was.asu.edu/directory/person/28597
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