Eleanor Ruth Duckworth was born on 1935 and is a teacher, teacher educator, and psychologist.
18 Facts About Eleanor Duckworth
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Eleanor Duckworth has conducted teacher education, curriculum development, and program evaluation in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia and her native Canada.
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Eleanor Duckworth is the daughter of Jack and Muriel Eleanor Duckworth, Canadian peace workers and social and community activists.
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Jack Eleanor Duckworth, born in 1897, was a highly regarded leader in the national YMCA movement and an outspoken pacifist from the 1930s until his death in 1975.
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Muriel Eleanor Duckworth, born in 1908, who celebrated her hundredth birthday on October 31,2008, was renowned as a crusader for social justice, women's rights, de-militarization, educational development and fighting poverty.
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Eleanor Duckworth was one of the 1000 women worldwide nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
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Eleanor Duckworth studied ballet in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a student of Irene Apinee and Jury Gotshalks, and danced in the Gotshalks Halifax Ballet.
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Eleanor Duckworth stopped her dance studies at the age of 15, and started again at the age of 58.
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Eleanor Duckworth is the sister of Montreal filmmaker Martin Duckworth, and Nova Scotia businessman and musician John Duckworth.
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Eleanor Duckworth first met Jean Piaget in 1957 in Paris at the Sorbonne where she was a graduate student.
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Eleanor Duckworth served as a research and teaching assistant for the second of those years.
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Eleanor Duckworth subsequently entered a doctoral program in cognitive psychology at Harvard University, and dropped out.
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At Inhelder's recommendation, Eleanor Duckworth began to participate in the Elementary Science Study in 1962, a curriculum development and science education reform project that grew out of MIT and became the foundation of the organization now known as Education Development Center.
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Eleanor Duckworth reported to her colleagues at the ESS about the conference by writing a short paper, "Piaget Rediscovered".
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Eleanor Duckworth continued to work with a smaller group of these same teachers for seven more years.
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Eleanor Duckworth wrote essays based on some of these experiences with Piaget, the Cambridge Teacher Project, the Moon Group, and her own teaching in her landmark book The Having of Wonderful Ideas.
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Consequently, Eleanor Duckworth suggests that a classroom teacher can take on the role of a researcher.
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Eleanor Duckworth involves teacher education students in the effort to understand somebody else's understanding.