Professor David Perkins has conducted in-depth research and practical design and teacher development activities in such areas as teaching and learning for understanding, the cultivation of creative and critical thinking skills and dispositions, transfer of learning, the connection between the arts and learning, organisational development, and distance learning.

David is a Senior Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a founding member of Project Zero, Co-Director for many years, and now senior Co-Director and member of the steering group committee.  Project Zero, founded in 1967, us a research and development group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education investigating human intelligence, creativity, understanding, and learning at all levels.

David’s most recent book is King Arthur’s Round Table: How Collaborative Organizations Create Smart Organizations (Wiley, 2003).  He also has authored The Eureka Effect on creativity (Norton, 2001), Smart Schools on teaching and school development (The Free Press, 1992), Outsmarting IQ on intelligence and its cultivation (The Free Press, 1995), Knowledge as Design on teaching and learning for understanding (Erlbaum, 1986), The Intelligent Eye on learning to think through the arts (Getty, 1994) and several other books, as well as many articles.  He has helped develop instructional programmes and approaches for teaching understanding and thinking, including initiatives in South Africa, Latin America, Israel and Sweden.