David Ausubel
| David Paul Ausubel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 25, 1918 New York CIty, New York, United States |
| Died | July 9, 2008 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Psychology, Educational Psychology |
| Known for | Advance Organizers |
| Influences | Jean Piaget |
| Notable awards | E. L. Thorndike Award (1977) |
David Paul Ausubel (October 25, 1918 – July 9, 2008) was an American psychologist. His most significant contribution to the fields of educational psychology, cognitive science, and science education learning was on the development and research on advance organizers since 1960.
He was born on October 25, 1918 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was nephew of the Jewish historian Nathan Ausubel.
He studied at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with honors in 1939, receiving a bachelor's degree majoring in psychology. Ausubel later graduated from medical school in 1943 at Middlesex University where he went on to complete a rotating internship at Gouverneur Hospital, located in the lower east side of Manhattan, New York. Following his military service with the US Public Health Service, Ausubel earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Columbia University in 1950. He continued to hold a series of professorships at several schools of education.
In 1973, Ausubel retired from academic life and devoted himself to his psychiatric practice. During his psychiatric practice, Ausubel published many books as well as articles in psychiatric and psychological journals. In 1976, he received the Thorndike Award from the American Psychological Association for "Distinguished Psychological Contributions to Education".
In 1994, at the age of 75, Ausubel retired from professional life to devote himself full-time to writing. He then published four books:Ego development and Psychopathology (1996), The Acquisition and Retention of Knowledge (2000), Theory and Problems of Adolescent Development (2002) and Death and the Human Condition (2002), in the last of which he wrote about the psychology of death and impressed his own personal psychological, theological and philosophical thoughts on the nature and implications of the afterlife. In this book, Ausubel conceptualized death from the perspective of both Christian believers and non-believers. He wrote that "the relevance and value of faith should certainly not be derogated or treated pejoratively, as atheists, agnostics, and rationalists tend to do."
He died on July 9, 2008. Ausubel and his wife Pearl had two children, Fred and Laura Ausubel.
...
Wikipedia