Works
- Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching the Crafts of Reading, Writing, and Mathematics, Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essays in Honor of Robert Glaser, 1989
- Cognitive Apprenticeship: Making Thinking Visible, American Educator, 1991
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A researcher of learning and organizations who directed Xerox PARC and served as Xerox's chief scientist. With Allan Collins and Susan Newman he proposed cognitive apprenticeship, which adapts craft apprenticeship to school subjects through modeling, coaching, scaffolding, and fading, so that an expert's thinking becomes visible to the learner.