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University of Illinois
Lilian G. Katz is Professor Emerita
of Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
where she is also Co- Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary
and Early Childhood Education. She is a Past President of the National
Association for the Education of Young Children, and is Editor of
the first on-line peer-reviewed early childhood journal, Early
Childhood Research & Practice.
Professor Katz is author of more than one hundred publications including articles, chapters, and books about early childhood education, teacher education for the early years, child development, and parenting of young children. For thirteen years she wrote a monthly column for parents of three- and four-year-olds for Parents Magazine.
Dr. Katz was founding editor of the Early Childhood Research Quarterly, and served as Editor-in-Chief during its first six years. She is currently Chair of the Editorial board of the International Journal of the Early Years published in the UK.
Her most recent book, co-authored with J. H. Helm, is Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years. Her book titled Talks with Teachers of Young Children (1995), is a collection of her best known early essays and several recent ones. In 2000 she published the second edition of Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach co-authored with S. C. Chard.
Dr. Katz has lectured in all 50 US states and in more than 40 countries. She has held visiting posts at universities in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, India, Israel, the West Indies (Barbados campus) and many parts of the USA. Dr. Katz is the recipient of many honors, including two Fulbright Awards (India & New Zealand), an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree (DLitt.) from Whittier College, Whittier, California, and an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Goteborg, Sweden. In 1997 she served as Nehru Professor at the University of Baroda in India.
Professor Katz, was born and raised in England. She attended Whittier College, Whittier, California from 1950 to 1952. She became a US citizen in 1953. She received her B.A. degree from San Francisco State University (1964) and her Ph.D. in Child Development from Stanford University in 1968. She and her husband Boris Katz have three grown children, four grandsons and one granddaughter.
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