Malcolm Knowles Memorial Award for significant lifelong contributions to the field of self-directed learning

2022 Professor Albert Bandura

International Society for Self-Directed Learning

David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Science (Emeritus), Stanford University, 1925–2021

“Development of capabilities for self-directedness enables individuals not only to continue their intellectual growth beyond their formal education but to advance the nature and quality of their life pursuits. Changing realities are placing a premium on the capability for self-directed learning throughout the life span. The rapid pace of technological change and the accelerated growth of knowledge require continual upgrading of competencies if people are to survive and prosper…. Self-development with age partly determines whether the expanded life span is lived self-fulfillinglyor apathetically”
(Albert Bandura, 1997, Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control, p. 227)

Prof. Albert Bandura

2022 Malcolm Knowles Memorial Award

Personal
Born December 4, 1925, in Mundare, Alberta, Canada
Married Virginia (“Ginny”) in 1952
Children: Mary (b. 1954) and Carol (b. 1958)
Passed: July 26, 2021, in Stanford, California

Prof. Albert Bandura