GLEC - Advisers

Geoffrey Saxe is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known internationally for his empirical and theoretical contributions in areas of culture and cognitive development with a focus on mathematics. He has served as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI on federal (USA) and private foundation grants concerned with mathematical cognition and processes of teaching and learning. In addition to classrooms and home settings in the United States, sites for his research have included remote areas of Papua New Guinea and urban and rural Brazil. He has served as a member of various standing committees and task forces and review panels for private and public foundations, including the MacArthur Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the OERI, and the National Institutes of Mental Health. His current research concerns children's developing understanding of fractions, funded by the Spencer Foundation. For the 2003-4 academic year, he is on sabbatical fellowship, engaged with research and writing at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences on the Stanford University campus. He is currently Editor of the journal, Human Development and serves on the editorial boards for Cognition and Instruction and the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.