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Albert Bandura is the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford σε απευθείας σύνδεση University. Over almost six decades, Professor Bandura has made innumerable contributions to research in psychology. Bandura’s work has been pivotal in various fields within psychology, which include social cognitive theory, therapy and personality psychology, behaviourism, and cognitive psychology. Bandura is particularly known for his seminal work in developing the social learning theory and the theory of self-efficacy, as well as his landmark 1961 ‘Bobo doll experiment’. Surveys indicate that Bandura is the fourth most-frequently cited psychologist of all time, behind B.F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential psychologists of all time. Professor Bandura has received more than sixteen honorary degrees, including those from the University of British Columbia, Alfred University, the University of Rome, the University of Lethbridge, the University of Salamanca in Spain, Indiana University, the University of New Brunswick, Penn State University, Leiden University, and Freie Universitat Berlin, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Universitat Jaume I in Spain, the University of Athens and the University of Catania. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association, a Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Psychological Science from the American Psychological Foundation, and a Grawemeyer Award for contributions to psychology.

Professor Geoffrey Sherington is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Sydney. Former Dean of the Faculty of Education (1997-2003) and then Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor (2003), Professor Sherington has been a member of the University of Sydney for over 25 years. Having graduated with Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History from the University of Sydney and then a Master of Arts from the University of New South Wales, he then studied oveseas in Canada and England graduating from McMaster University with a Ph D. On return to Australia he was appointed a Lecturer in Education at the University of Wollongong before taking up an appointment at the University of Sydney. After a career as lecturer, senior lecturer and Associate Professor he was appointed to a personal chair in médicament the history of education in 1997 just prior to becoming Dean of the Faculty. Over the past 30 years, Professor Sherington has been the author and co-author of 15 books and numerous articles in the history of education. His current interests include the fate of the comprehensive public high school and the history of universities as public institutions. Currently he is not only working on the middle class and school choice project, but a new history of the rise of public universities in Australia and New Zealand.

John Biggs has held Chairs in Education in Canada, Australia, and Hong Kong and is currently an Honorary Professor of Psychology at HKU. Professor Biggs developed the SOLO Taxonomy for assessing the quality of learning outcomes, and the model of constructive alignment for designing teaching and assessment. After studying psychology at the University of Tasmania, Professor Biggs moved to the UK for doctoral studies at the University of London. He has published extensively on student learning and the implications of his research for teaching. Professor Biggs’s most influential work is his concept of constructive alignment. This concept, a form of outcomes-based education, is outlined in Teaching for Quality Learning in University (McGraw-Hill/Open University Press). The fourth edition is co-authored with Catherine Tang, based on their experience in implementing constructive alignment in several countries. Post-retirement, he is exercising his right hemisphere by publishing fiction.