Susan Engel

Susan Engel is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Founding Director of the Program in Teaching at Williams College. Her research interests include children’s narratives, play, the development of curiosity, and more generally, teaching and learning. Her work has appeared in journals such asCognitive Development and the American Education Research Journal. She is the author of four books: The Stories Children Tell: Making Sense of the Narratives of Childhood, Context is Everything: The Nature of Memory, Real Kids: Making Sense in Everyday Life, and Red Flags or Red Herrings: Predicting Who Your Child Will Become. She is a founder of an experimental school in NY State, where for fourteen years she served as the Educational Advisor. Recently she oversaw a project, in conjunction with the Spencer Foundation, to develop new ways to measure what children learn in school. She is currently writing a book on the development of curiosity.