Eleanor Duckworth

Eleanor Ruth Duckworth
Born1935 (age 88–89)
RegionWestern Philosophy
SchoolConstructivism
Main interests
Cognitive development, science education, curriculum, teacher education
Notable ideas
Cognitive development, educational progressivism

Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (born 1935) is a teacher, teacher educator, and psychologist.

Duckworth earned her Ph.D. at the Université de Genève in 1977. She grounds her work in Jean Piaget and Bärbel Inhelder's insights into the nature and development of understanding and intelligence and in their clinical interview method. She was also an elementary school teacher. Her participation in the 1960s curriculum development projects Elementary Science Study and African Primary Science Program was germinal for her insights and practices in exploratory methods in teaching and learning.