John W. Santrock - Educational Psychology

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About the Author

John Santrock with his grandchildren Luke, Alex, and Jordan

Courtesy of Dr. John Santrock

John Santrock received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He taught at the University of Charleston and the University of Georgia before joining the Program in Psychology at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he currently teaches a number of undergraduate courses and was recently given the Universitys Effective Teaching Award. In 2010, he created the UT-Dallas Santrock undergraduate scholarship, an annual award that is given to outstanding undergraduate students majoring in developmental psychology to enable them to attend research conventions.

John has been a member of the editorial boards of Child Development and Developmental Psychology. His research on father custody is widely cited and used in expert witness testimony to promote flexibility and alternative considerations in custody disputes. John also has authored these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: Children (13th edition), Adolescence (16th edition), A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development (8th edition), and Essentials of Life-Span Development (5th edition).

For many years, John was involved in tennis as a player, teaching professional, and coach of professional tennis players. At the University of Miami (FL), the tennis team on which he played still holds the NCAA Division I record for most consecutive wins (137) in any sport. Johns wife, Mary Jo, has a masters degree in special education and has worked as a teacher and a Realtor. He has two daughtersTracy, who worked for a number of years as a technology marketing specialist, and Jennifer, who has been a medical sales specialist. However, recently both have followed in their mothers footsteps and are now Realtors. He has one granddaughter, Jordan, age 24, who works for the accounting firm Ernst & Young, and two grandsons, Alex, age 11, and Luke, age 10. In the last two decades, John also has spent time painting expressionist art.

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