College of Education and Human Development

Department of Educational Psychology

David Johnson

  • Professor Emeritus

  • Educational Psychology
    250 Education Sciences Bldg.
    56 East River Road
    Minneapolis, MN 55455

     

  • johns010@umn.edu
David Johnson

Areas of interest

  • Cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts
  • Conflict resolution (structured controversy and peer mediation)
  • Social psychology of groups in general
  • Organizational development and change
  • Innovation in educational practice.
  • Integration of theory, research, and practice
Degrees
  • EdD in social psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, 1964-1966
  • MA in social psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, 1962-1964
  • BS in English, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 1958-1962
Biography

David Johnson is Co-Director of the Cooperative Learning Center. For the past 40 years, he has served as an organizational consultant to schools and businesses throughout the world.  He is a practicing psychotherapist.

Johnson held the Emma M. Birkmaier Professorship in Educational Leadership at the University of Minnesota from 1994 to 1997 and the Libra Endowed Chair for Visiting Professor at the University of Maine in 1996-1997.  He received the American Psychological Association’s 2003 Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Practice.  In 2007, Johnson received (with his brother Roger) the Brock International Prize in Education administered by the College of Liberal Studies at the University of Oklahoma.  In 2008, he received the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award from the American Education Research Association. In 2011, he was awarded the Alfred M. Wellner Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.

Johnson has authored over 500 research articles and book chapters and over 50 books.  He's a past-editor of the American Educational Research Journal. For more than 40 years, he has served as an organizational consultant to schools and businesses throughout the world.

Johnson's research interests are (a) cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts; (b) conflict resolution (structured controversy and peer mediation), and (c) social psychology of groups in general. He is active in the field of organizational development and change, and in innovation in educational practice. He emphasizes the integration of theory, research, and practice.

See "Working cooperatively: proof that students who work together, learn together"

Publications

Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, F. (2000). Joining together: Group Theory and Group Skills (7th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Johnson, D. W. (2000). Reaching out: Interpersonal Effectiveness and Self-actualization (7th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Holubec, E., Mitchell, J., Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, R. (2000). Instructor's Manual for "JoiningTogether: Group theory and group skills" (3rd ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.