University at Albany
 

 

ARTHUR APPLEBEE  

Professor
Educational Theory and Practice

Director
Center on English Learning & Achievement

OFFICE: EDUCATION 312
PHONE:  (518) 442-5026
FAX:  (518) 442-5933
EMAIL: aapplebee@uamail.albany.edu
 

Dr. Arthur Applebee

Photo: Elena Siebert


Arthur Applebee

Applebee is professor of education at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and director of the federally sponsored National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA). He earned his Ph.D. in Language Education from the University of London and specializes in studies of language use and language learning, particularly as these occur in school settings.
 
Applebee’s major works include a reconceptualization of the role of curriculum in American schools and colleges (Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning, 1996), a developmental study of children’s story-telling and story-comprehension skills (The Child’s Concept of Story: Ages Two to Seventeen, 1978), national studies of the teaching of writing and literature (Literature in the Secondary School: Studies of Curriculum and Instruction in the United States, 1993; Writing in the Secondary School: English and the Content Areas, 1981; Contexts for Learning to Write: Studies of Secondary School Instruction, 1984) and a comprehensive history of the teaching of literature in American secondary schools (Tradition and Reform in the Teaching of English: A History, 1974). He is co-author of How Writing Shapes Thinking: A Study of Teaching and Learning (1987), and of a series of reports on reading and writing achievement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (1981, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994).
 
Applebee has experience in program evaluation, high school teaching (English and Drama), and clinical assessment and treatment of children with severe reading problems. He is a former editor of Research in the Teaching of English, a past president of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, and a recipient of the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English from the National Council of Teachers of English.

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