Margaret Donaldson

Margaret Donaldson was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where she continued as a teacher after ceasing to be a student and where, in 1980, she was appointed Professor of Developmental Psychology. Her main research interest has always been the study of human thought and language. At an early stage in her career she spent some time at Piaget’s research institute in Geneva and was much influenced by that experience, though she later came to question some important aspects Piagetian theory. She spent a year in the United States as the holder of a John Hay Whitney Fellowship and has also worked there with Bruner on curriculum development projects. She is the author of A Study of Children’s Thinking and Human Minds. Along with Robert Grieve and Chris Pratt, she has edited a book of readings entitled Early Childhood Development and Education.