Senior Research Psycologist

Mills College

Department of Education
5000 Mac Arthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613

TEL: (510) 430-2118
FAX: (510) 430-3233
HOME: (925) 934-6178
E-MAIL: c_lewis@post.harvard.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• EDUCATION
  comparative educational systems; creativity development; cultural diversity training; education and society; pre-collegiate education; pre-school education; students; teaching methods; science education
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  education policy
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  academic achievement; comparative and cross-cultural studies; interpersonal relations; psychology and social psychology; social control; socialization and child development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principle Investigator, NSF-funded Studies of Elementary Science Education; Director of Research and Development, Developmental Studies Center, 1987-90; Adjunct Professor, University of California-San Francisco; Congressional Science Fellowship, Legislative Staff, Senate Subcommittee on Child and Human Development and Senator Alan Cranston, 1980-81; Chief Staff, Governor's Task Force on Mental Health, 1979-80; Researcher and Translator, Japan Research Institute, 1972-74.

IN JAPAN: 1972-74 - research; 1967-68 - study.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Science Lessons and Beyond; Why do US and Japanese Students Diverge in Science Achievement?; A Lesson is Like a Swiftly Flowing River; How Research Lessons Improve Japanese Science Education; Resilient Myths: Are Our Minds Made Up About Japanese Education?; Educating Hearts and Minds: Reflections on Japanese Preschool and Early Elementary Education (Cambridge University Press, 1995); "Creativity and Japanese Education," Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies (ed. Leestma et al.) (1992); "The Roots of Japanese Educational Achievement: A Reinterpretation," Educational Policy (forthcoming); "From Indulgence to Internalization: Social Control in the Early School Years," Journal of Japanese Studies, 15.