sentences:  He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Syracuse University in educational psychology and has been on the faculty at Madison since that time.He has had visiting appointments at Umeå University (Sweden), Simon Fraser University (Canada), and the University of Southern California.Zeichner serviced as Vice President of American Educational Research Association (Division K), a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, co-chair of the AERA Panel on Research in Teacher Education and as a member of National Academy of Education Committees on Teacher Education and Teacher Professional Development.