ABSTRACT
Lee S. Shulman has spent his professional life advocating for the importance of teaching at all levels, from kindergarten through graduate school. He is best known for his theoretical and empirical work on teacher cognition, for his work on the knowledge base of teaching, including the construct of 'pedagogical content knowledge', and for promoting the scholarship of teaching in higher education. Shulman's first academic job was at Michigan State University, where he joined the faculty of education. One of his best-known early contributions arose from his collaboration with a colleague in the medical school, and former college roommate, Arthur Elstein. Shulman moved to Stanford University in 1982, where he was to become the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education. In 1997 he left Stanford to assume the presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where he has extended his work on teaching into the world of higher education.
