Michael Connelly is co-founder and Editor of Curriculum Inquiry, an international, refereed journal which, according to the Social Science Citation Index, is the top ranked educational journal in Canada, and one of the top ranked general education journals in the world.
A student of Joseph Schwab and originally a science educator -- he directed the Canadian component of the Second International Science Study of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement -- Michael Connelly's research has focused on teaching, teacher education, and teacher knowledge. Together with his colleague, D. Jean Clandinin, he has pursued several long-term studies of teachers' personal practical knowledge and teachers' professional knowledge landscapes. Drs. Connelly and Clandinin are co-authors of Teachers as Curriculum Planners: Narratives of Experience (1988), as well as other books and numerous articles and book chapters. They have 2 books released in 1999, Forging a Professional Identity: Stories of Educational Practice with Teachers College Press and Narrative Inquiry with Jossey-Bass.
Dr. Connelly was the recipient of the 1987 Outstanding Canadian Curriculum Scholar Award of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, the 1991 Canadian Education Association/Whitworth award for Educational Research, the 1995 Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 1999 AERA Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Curriculum Studies.
Professor Connelly is a member of the Board of Directors of the John Dewey Society for Study of Education and Culture.
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