Prof. Lee Shulman

Professor Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Education Past President, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Lee S. Shulman is President Emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Educational Psychology and Medical Education at Michigan State University.

Shulman is a past president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and also of the U.S. National Academy of Education. Shulman’s book received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in 2008. 

Shulman’s work examines the study of teaching and teacher education; pedagogical content knowledge; the assessment of teachers; medical education; the psychology of instruction in science, mathematics, and medicine; the logic of educational research; and the quality of teaching in higher education. Shulman’s most recent work has been the conceptualizing and description of signature pedagogies in the preparation of professionals and candidates for the doctorate in the sciences and humanities.