William "Bill" Elder Doll Jr. (January 29, 1931 – December 27, 2017) was an American educator, author and curriculum theorist.
Doll's scholarly study started in progressivism, moved to Piaget, and gradually shifted to postmodernism, chaos theory and complexity and their implications for school curriculum.
After teaching and administrating in elementary and middle school for 15 years, he obtained a Ph.D. degree in education at the Johns Hopkins University in 1972.
Doll writes, In place of simplicity, spirituality, and uniformity, today we are seeing the world, the universe, and reality itself as a mixture of “the complex, the temporal, and the multiple” (Prigogine & Stengers, 1984, p. xxvii[6]).
[9] Doll’s 1993 book has been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew, among others.