http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-15T22:23:53+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=adrianna_kezar&rev=1750081549&do=diff Adrianna Kezar Biography Adrianna Kezar is a multidisciplinary higher education educational scholar whose work consistently highlights the creation of inclusive and fair educational institutions, especially in higher education. Her scholarly work is influenced by her multidisciplinary thinking and previous professional experience in student affairs administration. Through her work, Dr. Kezar has expanded our understanding of educational issues ranging from STEM reform to organizational change.… text/html 2026-04-14T17:29:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=deborah_meier&rev=1776187746&do=diff Deborah Meier (1931-) Biography Deborah Meier is an American educator, author, and school founder who has been a leading voice in U.S. educational reform for more than fifty years and the first K–12 teacher to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. Born on April 6, 1931, in New York City to Joseph and Pearl Willen — both politically active, with Joseph running the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and Pearl volunteering widely and running once for City Council — Meier was raised in a household co… text/html 2026-04-15T08:08:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=elliot_eisner&rev=1776240491&do=diff Elliot Eisner (1933–2014) Biography Elliot Wayne Eisner was an American painter, art educator, and educational theorist whose career at Stanford University made him the foremost advocate for the cognitive, curricular, and methodological importance of the arts in education. Born in Chicago in 1933 to a Jewish American family that saw education as a motivating force for change, Eisner traced his intellectual life to his mother's decision, when he was eight, to enroll him in Saturday art classes … text/html 2026-04-15T08:17:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=etienne_wenger&rev=1776241046&do=diff Etienne Wenger (1952-) Biography Etienne Wenger is a Swiss-born educational theorist and organizational consultant whose development of the “communities of practice” concept has become one of the most widely adopted frameworks for understanding adult, professional, and situated learning across education, business, and public policy. Growing up in Switzerland, where the distant Alps fostered a sense of wonder and a desire to travel, Wenger began his career as a French teacher abroad before shif… text/html 2026-04-15T07:53:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=robert_c._pianta&rev=1776239582&do=diff Robert C. Pianta (1955-) Biography Robert C. Pianta is an American developmental psychologist, teacher educator, and former Dean of the University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development whose work over nearly five decades has shown that the quality of interactions between teachers and children is the decisive lever of educational quality. Pianta earned his B.S. from the University of Connecticut in 1977 and an M.A. in special education there in 1978, then taught special educat… text/html 2026-04-14T06:08:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=robert_e._slavin&rev=1776146922&do=diff Robert E. Slavin (1950–2021) Biography Robert E. Slavin — known to colleagues as Bob — was an American educational researcher whose career centered on bringing the standards of the experimental sciences into classroom practice and school reform. He studied psychology at Reed College in Oregon, where Professor Carol Creedon mentored his undergraduate thesis and encouraged him toward a career in education, and he went on to earn a doctorate in social relations from Johns Hopkins University in 19…