David Grossman

Background

About David Grossman

David L. Grossman is currently an Senior Adjunct Fellow in the Education Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu, and an internationally known scholar of and advocate for global, international, and intercultural education. Previously he served as Dean of the Education Division of Chaminade University of Honolulu, and Dean of the Faculty of Languages, Arts, and Sciences at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). Prior to moving to Hong Kong, he was director of the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) at Stanford University, and Director of the Center for Teaching Asia and the Pacific in the Schools (CTAPS) at the East-West Center. While at HKIEd, Dr. Grossman co-founded a Centre for Citizenship Education that created a regional network for dialogue and research on citizenship education throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Through the Centre he facilitated research on citizenship education that resulted in a series of publications that he co-edited with Centre colleagues: Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific: Concepts and Issues, Citizenship Curriculum in Asia and the Pacific, and Citizenship Pedagogies in Asia and the Pacific. Recently he also co-edited Social Education in Asia with Joe Tin-Yau Lo, and Creating Socially Responsible Citizens: Cases from the Asia-Pacific Region with John J. Cogan. He has also published in the areas of teacher education, global education, intercultural education, and action research. Dr Grossmans has receive the Distinguished Global Scholar Award, from the International Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Arthur King, Jr. Curriculum Innovation Award, for outstanding contribution to curriculum research and development in the Asia and Pacific region, from the Pacific Circle Consortium.