Erik De Corte#
| Email: | erik.decorte 'at' ppw.kuleuven.be |
| Membership Number: | 1645 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Section: | BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES |
| Username: | edecorte |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006- : Emeritus professor, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1978-2006: Full professor, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1976-1978: Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1972-1976: Associate professor, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1971-1972: Lecture, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1964-1971:Full-time researcher as Fellow of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- instructional psychology, more specifically
- learning and teaching of problem-solving and learning skills
- metacognitive and affective/emotional aspects of learning
- self-regulation
- design and evaluation of powerful learning environments
- mathematics learning and teaching
- epistemic and motivational beliefs in mathematics
Honours and Awards
- Foreign member of the "Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Class of the Humanities" (1991)
- Member of the Academia Europaea” (1995)
- Member of the “International Academy of Education (IAE)” (1997; President : 1998 – 2006)
- Recipient of the 1997 “Oeuvre Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Learning and Instruction” of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)”
- Doctor honoris causa of the Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa (2000)
- Recipient of the 2002 "Award for Outstanding Career Contribution in Educational Psychology" of the Division Educational, Instructional and School Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology
- Foreign member of the "National Academy of Education" of the United States (2002)
- Doctor honoris causa of the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa (2003)
- Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2009)
- Erik De Corte is of the founders and the first President (1985-1989) of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), and also the founding editor of the EARLI Learning and Instruction (1989-1993)
- coordinator of the HERCULES (Higher Education, Research and Culture in European Society), Group of the Academia Europaea
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