D Bob Gowin Author

Marino C. Alvarez is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning of the College of Education at Tennessee State University. He received his MA and doctoral degree (Ed.D.) from West Virginia University. His interest in content literacy stems from his years of teaching Social Studies in middle and secondary schools. D. Bob Gowin has taught at Cornell University for 30 years. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University and was granted a post-doctoral Fellowship in Philosophy at Yale in 1958. He has authored 15 books and monographs and co-authored Learning How to Learn (with Joseph Novak) and Appraising Educational Research (with Jason Millman).