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Derek Cabrera (born 1970) is an educational theorist, systems thinking expert, inventor, and cognitive scientist. He is best known for formulating the DSRP theory and method of thinking and the invention of MetaMaps and ThinkBlocks. ==Biography== Cabrera received a Ph.D. from Cornell University with a dissertation entitled ''Systems Thinking,'' a synthesis of his research in complexity science and cognition. It was recognized as an important contribution to several fields. Cabrera focused his work on the importance of the intersection of ontology and epistemology in understanding human thought and our interactions with the world around us. By training an evolutionary epistemologist, Cabrera advances that knowing how we know things is equally important to what we know. He further suggests that all humans build knowledge, not by merely receiving information, but through the interactive, dynamic relationship between information and thinking, which he terms DSRP. His later book, ''Thinking at Every Desk'', expounds upon these ideas〔Cabrera, D. and Colosi, L. (2009) ''Thinking at Every Desk: How Four Simple Thinking Skills Will Transform Your Teaching, Classroom, School, and District''. Ithaca, NY: The Research Institute for Thinking in Education. ISBN 978-0979430831〕 and was republished by W.W. Norton.〔Cabrera, D. and Colosi, L. (2012) ''Thinking at Every Desk: Four Simple Skills to Transform Your Classroom''. New York, NY: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-70756-4〕 Cabrera served on the faculty at Cornell, where he designed and taught a graduate-level course on systems thinking. He received a post-doctoral fellowship at Cornell University where he was awarded a large-scale NSF grant to apply his DSRP Theory to the evaluation of large-scale science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs.〔Steele, Bill. (2006) Did outreach really work? Cornell team will develop tools to evaluate science and technology education. Cornell Chronicle Online. ()〕 He has received several awards and competitive fellowships for his work, including a National Science Foundation IGERT fellowship in nonlinear systems in the (Center for Applied Mathematics (CAM) ) at Cornell University and the Association of American Colleges and Universities K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award.〔http://www.igert.org/projects/51〕〔http://www.aacu.org/about/cross_award.cfm〕 He was profiled in a chapter of the book ''Heroes of Giftedness''.〔Walters, M. and Roman, H. (2009). ''Heroes of Giftedness: An Inspirational Guide for Gifted Students and Their Teachers: Presenting the Personal Heroes of Twelve Experts on Gifted Education.'' Gifted Education Press. ISBN 9780910609586〕 He was a research fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, where he further developed the mathematical basis for DSRP Theory, led a team to create multimedia modules about complexity science and Network theory〔Stites, Janet. (2007) Complexity for the World. ''SFI Bulletin'', 22(1), 50-51.()〕 and also developed a new model that applied systems thinking to the field of evaluation of science programs. A social entrepreneur, Cabrera established several non-profit and cause-based organizations, including leading fundraising for the (Aceh Relief Fund ) after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.〔Crawford, Franklin. (2005) Local tsunami relief effort is close to home for Cornell grad student. ''Cornell Chronicle'' ()〕 He co-founded an organization called (Children of Rural Africa ), which builds schools and community development projects in rural Nigeria.〔Frisinger, Kerrie. (2006) Cornell Students Fight Poverty. ''Ithaca Journal'' ()〕 In 2007, frustrated with his experiences teaching ivy league students, Cabrera and his academic colleague Laura Colosi, also a Ph.D. from Cornell, founded an movement in education based on getting thinking into instruction.〔 They created this movement to ensure that thinking skills were taught to every student nationwide and eventually worldwide. Since its founding, numerous offshoots have been created internationally, in South Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia. Cabrera works with educators from K-12 to college and even with organizations to infuse thinking skills into existing curricula using the Patterns of Thinking method (also known as DSRP), which Cabrera created. In the DSRP method, students are encouraged to explore any given concept by recognizing and explicating the distinctions, systems, relationships, and perspectives that characterize the concept. They then physically model the concept using a tactile manipulative Cabrera invented called ThinkBlocks,〔Lang, Susan (2007). Thinking outside the block: Two alumni launch toy to foster abstract thinking in kids and adults alike. Cornell Chronicle: October 17, 2007. Accessed: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct07/thinking.toy.ssl.html〕 or graphically represent the concept in terms of DSRP using DSRP diagrams.〔Orr, Jennifer. (2011) Thinking About Thinking Skills: Not How, But What. ''Elementary My Dear, Or Far From It.'' ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Derek Cabrera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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