 William DamonWilliam Damon, Ph.D is
Professor of Education and Director of the Center on Adolescence at
Stanford
University
. He is also Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and
Peace. Prior to coming to Stanford, Damon was University Professor and Director
of the Center for the Study of Human Development at
Brown
University
. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard and his doctorate in
developmental psychology from the
University
of
California
at
Berkeley
. Damon is editor-in-chief of New Directions for Child and Adolescent
Development and editor of The Handbook of Child Psychology (1998). Recently, he
has been helping schools and communities build "youth charters" for
adolescent moral development. In addition, Damon has been working with Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi and Howard Gardner on a large educational project seeking to
foster good work in several key domains of American society. The domains include
journalism, business, the sciences, higher education, and philanthropy. Damon
has received awards and grants from many sources, including the Pew Charitable
Trusts, the John Templeton Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of
New York
, the New York Community Trust, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and
the Thrive Foundation. He has recently been elected to membership in the
National Academy of Education.
Selected Bibliography
Damon, William and Richard M. Lerner. Theoretical
Models of Human Development, v. 1. Handbook of Child Psychology, 5th
Edition. John Wiley and Sons:
March 10, 2000
.
Damon, William, et al. Cognition,
Perception and Language, v. 2. Handbook of Child Psychology, 5th
Edition. John Wiley and Sons:
March 10, 2000
.
Damon, William and Nancy Eisenberg. Social,
Emotional, and Personality Development, v. 3. Handbook of Child
Psychology, 5th Edition. John Wiley and Sons:
March 10, 2000
.
Damon, William. Greater Expectations.
Touchstone Books: 1996.
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