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Uri Shafrir
(Ph.D., UCLA - Mathematical Science;
Ph.D., York University - Developmental Psychology)
Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology
Director, Adult Studies Skills Clinic, OISE/UT
Leader, Conceptual Curation Cross-Disciplinary Research Group, KMDI
Email: uri.shafrir@utoronto.ca

 

Biography

Dr. Shafrir is an Associate Professor at OISE/UT Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology and Director of the Adult Study Skills Clinic. His research interests include: concept science and higher-order thinking; meaning equivalence pedagogy for conceptual thinking; conceptual curation and Interactive Concept Discovery (InCoD) in digital full-text knowledge repositories; cognitive and affective aspects of individual differences; design-symmetries, decoration, and human development.

Recent publications


Shafrir, U. (1999).  Representational competence.  In  I. E. Sigel (Ed.), The Development of Mental Representation: Theory and Applications, 371-389.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.


Shafrir, U., & Etkind, M. (2006). eLearning for Depth in the Semantic Web. London: British Journal for Educational Technology, 37(3), 425-444.


Shafrir, U., Etkind, M., & Treviranus J. (2006). eLearning Tools for ePortfolios. In Ali Jaffari and Catherine Kauffman (Eds.), Handbook of Research on ePortfolios. Chapter XX, 206-216. Idea Group.


Shafrir, U., & Kenett, R. S. (2010). Conceptual thinking and metrology concepts. Accrediation and Quality Assurance, 15, 585-590. Springer.

Etkind, M., Kenett, R. S., & Shafrir, U. (2010). The evidence-based management of learning: Diagnosis and development of conceptual thinking with meaning equivalence reusable learning objects (MERLO). Invited paper. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8). Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Etkind, M., & Shafrir, U. (2011). Pedagogy for conceptual thinking: Certificate program for instructors in innovative teaching. Proceedings of EDULEARN11 – 3rd International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain.

Shafrir, U., & Etkind, M. (2011). Conceptual Curation: Certificate program for librarians. Proceeding of EDULEARN11 – 3rd International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain.

Keywords

pedagogy for conceptual thinking; conceptual curation; interactive concept discovery