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Roger Johnson
Roger T. Johnson is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Science Education at the University of Minnesota. He holds an M.A. degree from Ball State University and an Ed.D from the University of California in Berkeley. His public school teaching experience includes teaching in kindergarten through eighth grade in self-contained classrooms, open schools, nongraded situations, cottage schools, and departmentalized (science) schools. In teaching in the Jefferson County Schools in Colorado he received an award for outstanding teaching. He has taught in the Harvard-Newton Intern Program as a Master Teacher and was a curriculum developer with the Elementary Science Study in the Educational Development Center in Newton, MA (ESS Science Curriculum). For three summers he has taught classes on the British Primary Schools at the University of Sussex near Brighton, England. He is an authority on inquiry teaching and has worked at the national level in science education. He was a member of the Search for Excellence Team of the National Science Teachers Association, and a member of the Project Synthesis group which explored discrepancies between what science education ought to be and what is actually happening in science classrooms. Dr. Johnson has served on many major task forces including the State of Minnesota Governor's Environmental Education Council. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and coauthor with David Johnson of Learning Together and Alone (4th Ed., 1991, Prentice-Hall); Circles of Learning (Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1984); Cooperation and Competition: Theory and Research (Interaction Book Company, 1989); and Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom (Interaction Book Company, 1991). Roger Johnson has been the recipient of several national awards including the Research Award in Social Studies Education presented by the National Council for the Social Studies, the Helen Plants Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 of the American Psychological Association), the Alumni of the year award from Teachers College, Ball State University, and the Outstanding Contribution to Research and Practice in Cooperative Learning award from the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Cooperative Learning. He is the co-director of the Cooperative Learning Center, which conducts research and training nationally and internationally on changing the structure of classrooms and schools to a more cooperative environment. Roger T. Johnson |
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