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
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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.
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- Applebees 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 childrens story-telling
and story-comprehension skills (The Childs 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).
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- 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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