John’s forty-year career in education includes work in classrooms, schools and school systems in Australia and Canada. He has published over 180 books and monographs, book chapters and refereed journal articles, including several handbook chapters. He has presented his work at international conferences and forums in Taiwan, Nepal, Vietnam, Spain, France, the Netherlands, the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Brazil.
He sits on the editorial board of several major international journals and is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education. He is also the editor of the Teaching section of the upcoming Encyclopedia of Science Education, which features contributions from the world’s leading science educators.
John’s work on teacher learning focuses on how teachers build and sustain knowledge of classroom practice across various discourse communities. He advocates a multi-metaphorical model of teacher learning that acknowledges the complexity of learning, and marshals the various components of the education enterprise to respect and support teachers’ attempts to build knowledge of their own practice.
John’s work on curriculum integration looks at interdisciplinary instruction and learning. He believes that integrated teaching is a promising curriculum reform strategy, with the potential to focus attention on some important local and global, social and technological problems. He and his colleagues advocate for what they call a worldly perspective on integration, which acknowledges and balances both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to curriculum. Curriculum integration is the focus of his latest coauthored book with Routledge, Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community: Exploring the Contribution of Integrated Curriculum, to be released in 2011.
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