Erik De Corte#
| Membership Number: | 1645 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0004455 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 Emeritus professor, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1978 - 2006 Full professor, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1976 - 1978 Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1972 - 1976 Associate professor, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1971 - 1972 Lecture, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1964 - 1971 Full-time researcher as Fellow of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Instructional psychology
- Learning and teaching of problem-solving and learning skills
- Metacognitive and affective/emotional aspects of learning
- Self-regulation
- Design and evaluation of powerful learning environments
- Mathematics learning and teaching
- Epistemic and motivational beliefs in mathematics
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Foreign member of the "Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Class of the Humanities"
- 1995 Member of the Academia Europaea”
- Member of the “International Academy of Education (IAE)” (1997; President: 1998 – 2006)
- Recipient of the 1997 “Oeuvre Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Learning and Instruction” of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)”
- 2000 Doctor honoris causa of the Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Recipient of the 2002 "Award for Outstanding Career Contribution in Educational Psychology" of the Division Educational, Instructional and School Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology
- 2002 Foreign member of the "National Academy of Education" of the United States
- 2003 Doctor honoris causa of the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
- 2009 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Erik De Corte is of the founders and the first President (1985-1989) of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), and also the founding editor of the EARLI Learning and Instruction (1989-1993)
- Member of the HERCULES (Higher Education, Research and Culture in European Society), Group of the Academia Europaea
