Daniel A. Wagner Professor Director, National Center on Adult Literacy/National Technology Lab for Literacy and Adult Education Director, International Literacy Institute (ILI)

Education
1968: B.S., Operations Research Engineering, Cornell University
1971: M.A., Experimental Psychology, University of Michigan
1976: Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of Michigan
1979–81: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Areas of Expertise
Child development and human cognition
Literacy in children, youth, and adults
Education in developing countries
Educational technologies

Professional Biography
Dr. Wagner is professor of education and director of the International Literacy Institute (ILI), co-sponsored by UNESCO and Penn. As founding director of the Literacy Research Center in 1983, he is also director of the National Center on Adult Literacy. He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the University of Michigan and was a visiting fellow at the International Institute of Education Planning in Paris, a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and Fulbright-Hays Scholar at the University of Paris. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Anthropological Association. Dr. Wagner has extensive experience in national and international educational issues, has consulted for numerous U.N. and donor agencies as well as with the U.S. government, and has worked in more than a dozen countries around the world. Dr. Wagner has more than 120 professional publications, including 20 books (translated into a half-dozen languages) across topics of literacy, basic education, child development, applied technology, and research and policy in cultural and international perspectives.

Research Interests and Current Projects
Dr. Wagner’s research interests include literacy across the lifespan (children, youth, adults), comparative studies of basic education and literacy, education in developing countries, and appropriate uses of educational technologies.

Courses Taught
EDUC 514: Human development and basic education in developing countries
EDUC 545: ICT4D: Technology and education in developing countries
EDUC 560: Human development
EDUC 610: Cultural perspectives on human developmen

Selected Publications
Wagner, D. A. (Ed.). (2007). Monitoring and Evaluation of ICT in Education Projects: A Handbook for Developing Countries. Washington, DC: World Bank/InfoDev.

Wagner, D. A., & Kozma, R. (2005). New technologies for literacy and adult education: A global perspective. Paris: UNESCO. [In English, French and Arabic.]

Wagner, D., Venezky, R. L., & Street, B. V. (Eds.). (1999). Literacy: An international handbook. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Wagner, D. (1999). The future of literacy in a changing world: Revised edition. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Gadsden, V. L. & Wagner, D. A. (Eds.) (1994). Literacy among African-American youth. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Wagner, D. (1993). Literacy, culture and development: Becoming literate in Morocco. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Wagner, D. (1992). Literacy: Developing the future. UNESCO Yearbook of Education. Paris: UNESCO.