Daniel P. Keating is a Royal Bank Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) and Director of the CIAR Program in Human Development. During the tenure of his Fellowship, he continues as Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE/UT), and as a member of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Toronto. Prior to coming to OISE in 1987, he served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota (Institute for Child Development, 1974-1980) and the University of Maryland (Psychology and Education, 1980-1987), where he was also the founding Director of the doctoral program in Applied Developmental Psychology. In 1985 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Keating received his Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1973.
Dr. Keating has written extensively on human development and education, particularly on intellectual development across the life-span and on the developmental sources of human diversity. He has written six books (including a 3-volume series on Applied Developmental Psychology, and the widely cited Intellectual Talent: Research and Development), and has contributed over fifty papers to scientific journals and scholarly collections. He is co-editor with Clyde Hertzman of the forthcoming Children of the Information Age: Developmental Health as the Wealth of Nations (expected Spring 1999). He is frequently invited to address groups across Canada, in the U.S.A., and in Europe; most often to discuss his research on how our social environments shape the way we think, and how social institutions need to change in order to work effectively with increasingly diverse populations.
Dr. Keating is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, in three different divisions: Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, and Child, Youth and Family Services. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for Research in Adolescence, and the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. He has served on numerous Editorial Boards for scholarly journals, and is also a frequent reviewer for granting agencies.
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(with J. F. Mustard, J. F.) Social economic factors in human development. In D. Ross (Ed.), Family security in insecure times (Vol. 1, pp. 87-105). Ottawa, ON: National Forum on Family Security, 1993.
The transformation of schooling: Dealing with developmental diversity. In J. Lupart, A. McKeough, & C. Yewchuck (Eds.), Schools in transition: Rethinking regular and special education (pp. 119-139). Toronto: Nelson, 1995.
The learning society in the information age. In S. A. Rosell (Ed.), Changing maps: Governing in a world of rapid change (pp. 205-229). Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1995.
Families, schools, and communities: Social resources for a learning society. In D. Ross (Ed.), Family security in insecure times: Vol. 2. Perspectives/Vol. 3. Building a partnership of responsibility (pp. 153-176). Ottawa, ON: Canadian Council on Social Development, 1996.
Habits of mind for a learning society: Educating for human development. In D. R. Olson & N. Torrance (Eds.), Handbook of education and human development: New models of learning, teaching and schooling (pp. 461-481). Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Healthy communities: Foundations of a learning society. Building on Community Strengths in Support of Families and Children, Halifax, NS, June 1994.
Last updated: November 25, 1998