| Activity | Date of Birth: 16/06/1926
Place of Birth: Paisley, Renfrewshire
University Qualifications and Professional Training:
MA (Edin), with first class honours in French, 1947
B.Ed (Edin) with distinction in psychology and in education, 1953
Ph.D (Edin) in psychology, 1956)
Honours and Awards:
David H.Russell Award (USA) for the book Children's Minds, 1983
Festschrift: R.Grieve and M.Highes (Eds.)
Understanding Children: Essays in Honour of Margaret Donaldson . Oxford: Blackwell, 1990
Portrait hung in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. (Painted by Donald Swan.)
Elected Honorary Life Member of the United Kingdom Reading Association, 1992
Elected Honorary Fellowship, The British Psychological Society, 1993
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1993
Honorary degree of Doctor of the University (D.Univ.), 1995
Professional Career:
Taught for one year at a Lycee in Rouen, France, 1945
Assistant, Department of Education, University of Edinburgh, 1953-1957
Research appointment at lecturer level, Department of Education, University of Edinburgh, 1957-1958
Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 1958-1969
Reader, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 1969-1980
Personal Chair of Developmental Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 1980-1988.
Sources: M Donaldson's CV
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | Selected publications:
A Study of Children's Thinking, London, Tavistock 1963
Children's Minds, London, Collins (translated into fifteen languages), 1978
Understanding Children: Essays in Honour of Margaret Donaldson, Blackwell London, 1990
Human Minds: An Exploration, London, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1992 |