John Willinsky
John Willinsky (born 1950 in Toronto ) is a Canadian social scientist.
Life
John Willinsky studied at Laurentian University (BA) and at the University of Toronto (MA). He received his PhD in Sociology of Education from Dalhousie University . He initially worked as a teacher in Ontario for ten years and then became an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Calgary and then in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). There he created the Public Knowledge Project in 1998, which creates software for the dissemination of knowledge. Willinsky has been a leader in the open access movement ever since .
In 2007 Willinsky was offered a professorship at Stanford University , USA. In addition, he continues to lead the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University . Willinsky founded the online journal Open Medicine in 2007, which was discontinued in 2014 due to a lack of public subsidies.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Wiki Education Foundation in 2014.
His book Learning to Divide the World has received awards from the American Educational Research Association and the History of Education Society .
Fonts
- The well-tempered tongue: the politics of Standard English in the High School . Foreword by Edgar Friedenberg . American university studies: Ser. 14; 4. New York: Lang, 1984 ISBN 0-8204-0108-0
- Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED . Princeton, 1994
- Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End . Minnesota, 1998
- Technologies of Knowing . Beacon 2000
- If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research . New York: Routledge, 2000
- The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship . MIT Press, 2006
- The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke . Chicago: UCP, 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about John Willinsky in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- John Willinsky , at Stanford
- John Willinsky , at activeminds
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Ovenden : For the encouragement of learning . Review. In: Financial Times, March 31, 2018, p. L&A 8
- ^ John Willinsky joins Wiki Education Foundation board , press release
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willinsky, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |