The lecturer Kenneth Ray Bain, full university professor of History and Education in the University of Columbia (USA) will be awarded doctor “honoris causa” by the Universitat de València this Friday, 21 November. The ceremony will take place in the Paraninfo in La Nau building at 12:00. The “Laudatio” will be pronounced by the lecturer Óscar Barberá. In this ceremony, new doctors of the academic year 2013-2014 will be awarded as doctors too.
Kenneth Ray Bain is a full university professor of History and Education in urban environments in the University of the District of Columbia and president of the Best Teachers Institute.
Its broad academic career has been developed in the universities of Texas-Pan American, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, New York, Montclair and in the University of the District of Columbia. He ran the National History Teaching Center of the United States and founded and directed four of the most important centres for the promotion of teaching excellence in the universities of Vanderbilt, Northwestern, New York and Montclair. He held several academic positions in these universities and in 2012 he was proclaimed “provost” (highest academic authority) by the University of the District of Columbia, the only public university of the federal capital, although he retired from it in July 2013.
Among his researches in education field, stand out the studies about the conditions in which deep and durable learning is produced and the creation of critical and natural learning environments.
Consultant of approximately five hundred universities worldwide, member of councils and committees of over seventy-five different universities and consultant of over a dozen publishers and magazines, he has obtained, among others, several prizes related to his teaching and his books, for example, ‘What the best university professors do’.
Last update: 20 de november de 2014 07:00.
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