Our Newest Laureates
Barbara D. Day
Chair, Curriculum and Instruction, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
President, Kappa Delta Pi, 1998–2000
Founder, Pi Theta Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, University of North Carolina

Editor of Teaching and Learning in the New Millennium (Kappa Delta Pi 1999)

Author of Open Learning in Early Childhood Education (1975); Early Childhood Education: Creative Learning, 2nd edition (1983); Early Childhood Education: Developmental/Experiential Teaching and Learning, 4th edition (1985) and Early Childhood Education: Creative Learning, 3rd edition (1988).

Coauthor of Early Childhood Education: Curriculum Organization and Classroom Management (1987) and Good Schools for Young Children, 5th edition (1994).
Kieran Egan
Professor of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

2002 Whitworth Award, Canadian Education Association
2001-2008 Canada Research Chair in Education, CRC Secretariat, Government of Canada
2001-2003 Killam Research Fellowship, Canada Council

Author of Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of Young Readers and Writers (2006); An Imaginative Approach to Teaching (2005); and The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding (1997).
Carol Gilligan
 Harvard Project on Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development
Harvard Project on Women’s Psychology, Boy’s Development, and the Culture of Manhood.

Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential People (1996)

Author of In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development (1982); Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance (1991); Meeting at the Crossroads (1992); Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship (1995); and The Birth of Pleasure (2002).
Ivor Goodson
Professor of Learning Theory, University of Brighton, England.

Michael Huberman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on the Lives of Teachers

Author of Life History and Professional Development: Stories of Teachers’ Life and Work (2003); Professional Knowledge, Professional Lives: Studies in Education and Change (2003); and Life History Research in Educational Settings: Learning from Lives (2001).
Maureen Hallinan
William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, Institute for Educational Initiatives, University of Notre Dame.
Principal investigator, Comparative Analysis of Best Practices in Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools

Coeditor of Stability and Change in American Education: Structure, Process and Outcomes (2003)
Editor of Handbook of the Sociology of Education (2000)
Author of School Sector Effects on Educational Outcomes (2006)
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
A leading historian and expert on education research, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann is the Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Prior to joining Harvard, Dr. Lagemann served as president of the Spencer Foundation and was a professor at New York University, where she served as chair of the Department of the Humanities and the Social Sciences and the director of the Center for the Study of American Culture and Education. Earlier in her career, she taught at Teachers College, Columbia University, and was a member of Columbia’s Department of History.

Dr. Lagemann is the author of five books, including An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research and is a member of the National Academy of Education, where she served as president from 1998 to 2002.
Vivian G. Paley
Kindergarten and nursery school teacher, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (retired)
Erikson Institute Award for Service to Children, 1987
MacArthur Fellowship, 1989
American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for Lifetime Achievement, 1998
John Dewey Society’s Outstanding Achievement Award, 2000
Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts, National Council of Teachers of English, 2004

Author of White Teacher (1979), Bad Guys Don’t Have Birthdays (1988), The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter (1990), and The Girl with the Brown Crayon (1997).
Alan Schoenfeld
Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Education, University of California–Berkeley Graduate School of Education
Senior advisor, Educational Human Resources Directorate, National Science Foundation
Principal investigator, Diversity in Mathematics Education (DiME) Center, Berkeley Graduate School of Education

Founding editor, Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education
Author of Mathematical Problem Solving
Lead author, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, grades 9–12