Professor Vera John-Steiner Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Vera John-Steiner, professor of Language and Literacy and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education and Presidential Professor in the Department of Linguistics, received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award given by the American Educational Research Association recently.

Photo: Presidential Professor Vera John-Steiner

For more than 40 years, John-Steiner has been instrumental in her areas of research. Division G, The Social Context of Education, recognized her for lifetime work on collaboration, creativity, multicultural and bilingual education, and cultural-historical theory at the national meeting of the American Educational Research Association held in Chicago in early April 2007.

John-Steiner is a frequent lecturer and guest speaker in the United States and abroad. Several of her books have contributed to an emergent understanding of the relationship of language and thought in the course of development.

She has won numerous awards throughout her academic career including UNM’s Annual Research Lecturer award (1998), Fellow, American Psychological Association (1989), Faculty Scholar, Spring (1992), Resident Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (Spring 1990), and the UNM Presidential Professorship Award (1985 – 1990). She was also the recipient of the UNM Outstanding Graduate Teacher (1983).

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