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Val D. Rust

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Val Dean Rust, born on 28 November 1934, is an American historian and professor of education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, where he taught from 1969 to 2008. He grew up in a Latter-day Saint family, taught high school in Utah in the early 1960s, attended Brigham Young University and earned a Ph.D. in education at the University of Michigan in 1967, followed by postdoctoral research in Germany and Norway. He was an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1967 to 1969, served as faculty chair and director of international programs at UCLA, was president of the Comparative and International Education Society from 1990 to 1991, and co-founded UCLA's Center for International and Development Education. His comparative education scholarship spans more than 45 years and includes The Democratic Tradition and the Evolution of Schooling in Norway in 1989 and The Unification of German Education in 1995.

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1934 1
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1. Val D. Rust (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Val Dean Rust (born November 28, 1934) is a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Infobox: birth_date
    November 28, 1934
  • Introduction
    is a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
  • Introduction, level worked at
    In the early 1960s, Rust taught high school in Murray and Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • In Group: Comparative and Sociological Education Scholars, Article text
    Rust has been a major contributor to the field of comparative education for more than 45 years
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