Bertram C. Bruce is Professor Emeritus in Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. As a scholar focusing on democratic education, he asks how we can guide education by an ecological, humanistic, and ethical vision. He is currently Guest Editor for a series of special issues (#5 to appear in Spring 2025) on democratic education for Schools: Studies in Education. See https://chipbruce.net/democratic-education-in-the-21st-century.

Bruce has a BA in biology from Rice University, a PhD in computer sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. He has held positions in industry and at several universities in the US and abroad, and led projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Education, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Institutes of Health, and many other agencies.

In 2007–08, he held a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the National College of Ireland, focusing on inquiry-based learning. In recent years, he’s worked on progressive education in Nepal, through various organizations, especially King’s College Nepal and Collaborative Schools Network.

HIs recent books include Beyond the classroom walls: Imagining the future of education, from community schools to communiversities. (2022), Thinking with Maps: Understanding the World through Spatialization (2021), and Education’s Ecosystems: Learning through Life (2020). See other books here and other publications here.

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