Bio

Since there isn't an "official" biography online for Vandenberg, here are the ones that I have pulled from his writings.

From Denton, David E. (ed.) (1974). Existentialism and Phenomenology in Education. New York: Teachers College Press. Vandenberg's essay is called "Phenomenology and Educational Research," pages 183-220.

Donald Vandenberg. Educated at Maryville College (Tennessee), and at the Universities of Wisconsin and Illinois. Presently, a Visiting Professor at the University of Calgary. A Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society, member of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and an Executive Board member of the John Dewey Society. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, and he has published Teaching and Learning (1969), Theory of Knowledge and Problems of Education (1969), and Being and Education: An Essay in Existential Phenomenology (1971).


From Education as a Human Right (1990), New York: Teachers College Press, page 271:

Donald Vandenberg delivered morning newspapers and worked as a drug store clerk and soda jerk in Milwaukee before serving as a photographer in U.S. naval aviation. He was a gardner/handyman on an estate in northern Wisconsin for six summers before and while earning his bachelor's in arts at Maryville College in Tennessee, where he won the English Prize. He taught high school in western Michigan while completing a masters degree at the University of Wisconsin, having already benefited from a year in American Studies at the University of Wyoming under a Coe Fellowship. The doctorate from the University of Illinois was followed by teaching philosophy of education at the University of Calgary, Penn State, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Santiago. His papers have been published in Educational Theory, Teachers College Record, Harvard Educational Review, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Journal of Educational Thought, Journal of Educational Administration, Educational Forum, UCLA Educator, Educational Research and Perspectives, Phenomenology + Pedagogy, and Discourse. He is consulting editor for Educational Philosophy and Theory and Phenomenology + Pedagogy.

Vandenberg has also edited two volumes of readings in the philosophy of education in the Broudy series with the University of Illinois Press (1969) and has written Being and Education (1971) and Human Rights in Education (1983). He has been a Reader in Education at the University of Queensland in Brisbane since 1976.