Background
She was born and raised in England and received her Doctor of Philosophy in Child Development from Stanford University in 1968.
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Lilian Katz
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Lilian Katz is a Professor Emerita of early childhood education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also principal investigator for the Illinois Early Learning Project, a contributor to the Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative, and editor of the first on-line peer-reviewed early-childhood journal, Early Childhood Research & Practice.
Education
Stanford University.
Career
Katz is a past president of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and former Director of the Educational Research Information Clearinghouse Clearinghouse on Elementary & Early Childhood Education. Foreign thirteen years, she wrote a monthly column for Parents Magazine. Katz was founding editor of the Early Childhood Research Quarterly, and served as editor-in-chief during its first six years.
She is currently chair of the editorial board of the International Journal of the Early Years published in the United Kingdom.
The Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting (CEEP) organized a symposium in her honor in 2000. In 1997 she served as Nehru Professor at the University of Baroda in India.
