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GSE Profiles
Staff Contact:
Geoffrey B. Saxe
Professor
Cognition and Development
Office: 4315 Tolman Hall
Phone: (510) 643-6627
Email: saxe@berkeley.edu
Website: gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/gsaxe/
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Geoffrey Saxe studies the interplay between culture and cognitive development with a particular focus on mathematical cognition. He has conducted his research in a variety of settings, including remote parts of Papua New Guinea, urban and rural areas of Northeastern Brazil, and elementary and middle school classrooms in the United States. He has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the former National Institute of Education. Other prior awards include a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a Fulbright Fellowship, and an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship. His books include Culture and Cognitive Development: Studies in Mathematical Understanding (1991), and a monograph, Social Processes in Early Number Development(with S. Guberman and M. Gearhart, 1987). Recent articles include "Relations between Classroom Practices and Student Learning in the Domain of Fractions," in Cognition and Instruction(with M. Gearhart et al., 1999); "Cognition, Development, and Cultural Practices," in Culture and Development: New Directions in Child Psychology,edited by E. Turiel (1999); "Teachers’ Shifting Assessment Practices in the Context of Educational Reform in Mathematics," in Teaching and Teacher Education(with M. Gearhart et al., 2000). He has served on standing grant proposal review panels for the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Cognitive Development, Journal of the Learning Sciences, Cognition and Instruction, and the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, and is on the Board of Directors of the Jean Piaget Society. He is Editor-in-Chief for the journal, Human Development. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Education.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Developmental Psychology
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Child Development
Cognitive Development
Cultural Studies
Mathematics Education
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