Learning and Thriving Across the Lifespan: The 100-Year Intellectual Legacy of Professor Edmund W. Gordon...

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Amy Stuart Wells Erica N. Walker

Learning and Thriving Across the Lifespan

The 100-Year Intellectual Legacy of Professor Edmund W. Gordon

Amy Stuart Wells, Erica N. Walker, Madhabi Chatterji , Abbey Keener

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Teachers' College Press
19 December 2025

Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Educational psychology; Educational strategies & policy; Examinations & assessment

This timely and much-needed volume pays tribute to the long life and intellectual legacy of Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, a prolific scholar, mentor, and icon in the fields of psychology and education. The central aim of this collection, drawn from a major conference celebrating Gordon's 100th birthday, is to highlight Gordon's scholarship and its saliency to the most critical issues in the field of education today, especially educational assessment and inequalities in learning opportunities related to class, culture, and race. With topics ranging from rethinking how we approach education for the least advantaged students, to early childhood education, to affirmative pedagogies that uplift all students, to assessment in the service of learning, the chapters of this volume explore Gordon's influence in shaping the field through collaborative thinking across generations of scholars.

The transdisciplinary research in this volume reflects Gordon's complex understanding of humanistic traditions and its connections to principles of social justice. The result is an accessible and vital roadmap for supporting all human beings across their life spans while addressing pervasive inequities in educational opportunities and outcomes for minoritized and low-income students.

Book Features:

A comprehensive look at the life and intellectual legacy of Dr. Edmund W. Gordon. Chapter authors examine Dr. Gordon's contributions across four areas--educational measurement, learning theory and development, human development, and human rights. Research that shows the importance of race, class, and culture in the interplay of education and student outcomes.

The concept of affirmative development and how it helps us understand the emancipatory potential of education as a field.

This book is made available as an open-access electronic publication that can be downloaded from the TC Press website.

Edited by: Amy Stuart Wells, Erica N. Walker, Madhabi Chatterji, Abbey Keener
Imprint: Teachers' College Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780807769607
ISBN 10: 0807769606
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 19 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Amy Stuart Wells is dean of the Bank Street Graduate School of Education and emeritus professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Erica N. Walker is dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Madhabi Chatterji is professor emerita of measurement, evaluation, and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Abbey Keener is an adjunct assistant professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.