John Willinsky

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

John Willinsky is a Canadian educator, activist, and author.


Dr. John Willinsky is currently the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. John taught school in Ontario for 10 years and, with Vivian Forssman, developed the Information Technology Management program for high schools in British Columbia and Ontario. He is the author of Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End, which won Outstanding Book Awards from the American Educational Research Association and History of Education Society, as well as the more recent titles, Technologies of Knowing and If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research. He directs the Public Knowledge Project at UBC, which is researching systems that hold promise for improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research.


This biography of a Canadian academic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../j/o/h/John_Willinsky_38f0.html"