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ED061552.Pdf DOCUMENT RESUME ED 061 552 CG 007 129 AUTHOR Reynolds, Maynard C., Ed. TITLE Proceedings of the Conference on Psychology and the Process of schooling in the Next Decade: Alternative Conceptions. INSTITUTION Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Dept. of special Education. SPONS AGENCY Office of Education (DHEW) , Washington, D.C. Bureau of Educational Personnel Development. PUB DATE Sep 71 GRANT OEG-0-9-336005(725) NOTE 274p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$9.87 DESCRIPTORS Behavior Change; Change Agents; Child Development; Cognitive Development; Cognitive Processes; Education; *Educational Change; *Educational Innovation; Educational Objectives; *Educational Philosophy; Educational Problems; Guidance Personnel; Intelligence; Learning; *Psychologists; Psychology; School Psychologists; *Schools; Social Experience; Student Teacher Relationship ABSTRACT The conference intended to stimulate dialogue between psychologists and educators for the purpose of developing ncreative propositions., that address the functions of schooling with the most relevant and advanced psychological knowledge. Most broadly, the papers and critiques are concerned with how psychology could beused to improve: (1) socialization;(2) curriculum development; (3) teaching; and (4) guidance. Some attention is also given to the total functioning of schools, especially organizational change and the community base. Papers deal variously with:(1) an interactional view of learning wnich weds Dewey and Piaget; (2) the new view intelligence as a gradually accumulated fund of skills i, -tion with social experience;(3) the role of school psycholoy'qf 4S teacher advisers; (4) current brain research and its relaLlonship to the problems of education; and (5) the lack of a productive theory of change process. A dissatisfaction with the current schooling process pervades the proceedings. Alternatives and innovations are suggested. (TL) ci19.0-tr 129 CG07 PROCEEDINGS of the CONFERENCE on Psychology and the Process of Schooling in the Next Decade: Mternative Conceptions Editor: Maynard C. Reynolds Director, I -!.adership Training Instituu/Special Education Bureau of Educational Personnel Development U.S. Office of Education Chairman, Department ef Special Educntion University of Minnesota Minncapolis, Minn. Technical Editor Sylvia W. Rosen PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS COPY- RIGHTED MATERIAL HAS BE " Miff Ythc__ TREN00c TO ERIC AND ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION. FURTHER REPRODUCTION OUTSIDE THE ERIC SYSTEM REQUIRES PER- MISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNER.'" A publication of the Leaders.- ip 1ining Institute/Special Education, sponsored bytheBureau forEducationalPersonnel Development,U.S.Office of gducation. 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The project presented or reported herein was performed pursuant -to Grant 0EG-0-9-336005(725) from the Bureau for Educational Per- sonnel Development, i-J-5-frie-Fof Education, Department of Health. Education and Welfare. The opinions expressed herein donot nec- essarily reflect the position or policy of the U.S. Office of Education and no official endorsement by the U.S. Office of Education should be inferred. This publication is distributed by the Department ofAudio-Visual Extension. (University. of Minnesota) 2037 University Avf., s P neapolis, Minn. 55455. Price, $3.50. 3 Conference Participants Maynard C. Reynold-, Ph.D., Editor Director of Leadership Training Institute/Special Education Bureau of Educational Personnel Development U.S. Office of Education Chairman, Depa'Ament of Special Education University of Minnesota Clyde Parker, Ph.D., General Sessions Chairman Professor, Department of Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology University of Minnesota Carl W. Backman Professor of Sociology and Chairman, University of Nevada (1966- ). Editor, Sociometry. Consultant to National Science Foundation and to National Institutes of Health. Previously, Program Director, Sociology and Social Psychology,National Science Foundation(1965-67); Chairman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Nevada (1962-64). B.A. 1948 (Sociology), Oberlin College; M.A. 1950, Ph.D. 1954 (Soci- ology), Indiana University. Donald H. Blocher Professor, College of Education, University of Minnesota (1967-). Pre- viously, Fulbright Professor, Kee le University, U. K. (1968-69). B.A. 1950 (Social Science) and M.A. 1954 (Political Science), Ball State University; Ph.D. 1959 (Educational Psychology), University oc Minnesota. Caleb Gattegno President, Educational 'dui consultants and performance contractors. Born in Alexandria, Egypt. Self-taught, L. Gattegno obtained all his knowledge about learning first from his observations of himself and then from the many students he began teaching in 1927. Having done research in a number of fields, he received his doctorates in mathematics (Univer- sity of Basle, 1937) and psychology (University of Lille, 1952). He translated two of Piaget's books into English before 1950. Lawrence Kohlberg Professor of Education and SocialPsychology, HarvardUniversity (1968). Recipient of NIMH Research Scientist Award. Previously Director, Child Psychology Training Program, University of Chicago (1964-68); Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sci- ences (1961-62). B.A. 1949 and Ph.D. 1958, University of Chicago. Ogden R. Lindsley Professor of Education; Director of Educational Research, Children's Re- habilitation Unit, Medical Center; Research Associate, Bureau of Child Research; University of Kansas (1965-). A member of the Editorial Boards of BehaviorResearch and Therapy, Journal of A79plied Behavioral Analysis, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, Be- havior Therapy.Consultant to Walter E. Fernald State School, Waverly, Mass.; V.A. Hospital, Topeka, Kan.; Kansas State Department of Public Instruction, Topeka, Kan.; and Johnny Appleseed School and Training Center.- Fort Wayne, hid: Previously; Associate in-Psychology; Psychiatry Department, Harvard Medical School (1961-65). B.A.1948 (Psychology) and Sc.M. 1950(ExperimentalPsychology). Brown University; Ph.D. 1957 (Psychology). HarvardUniversity. Recipient of Hofheimer Prize, American PsychiatricAssociation, 1962. and Golden Plate Award. American Academy of Achievement,1964. Ilerman H. Long President, Talladega College (1964-). President, United Negre, College Fund (1970-71) and Member of Executive Committee,Board or Directors, United Negro College Fund, Previously, StaffSupervisor to Director of Staff-Race Relations Department of the AmericanMissionary Association (1944-64); and Director of community self-surveysin race relations for San Francisco; Nlinneapolis; Burlington, Iowa;Kalamazoo, Mich.; Pitts- burgh, Pa.; Trenton, N.J.; and Baltimore, Md. B.A. 1935 (Philosophy and Psychology), TalladegaCollege; M.A. 1936 (Psychology). Hartford School of Religious Education,Hartford Seminary Foundation; Ph.D. 1949 (Psychology), University ofMichigan. Karl II. Pribram Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology;Head, The Neuro- psychology Laboratories; Stanford University. U.S.Public Health Service Career Research Award (1962- ).Associate, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (1969- ).Previously, Fellow, The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences(1958-59); Director, Neuro- physiological Research and Lal-- stitu!,' of 1.iving, Hartford, C-mn, (1951-581 B.S. 1938 (Biological Sciences), Universityof Chicago; M.D. 1941, Uni- versity of Chicago School of Medicine. Diplomate.American Board of Neurological Surgery. Current editor,hips includeNeuropsychologia; .n Research; Experi- mental Brain Research; International Journal ofNe,, ,pharmacology; Brain, Behavior and Evolution; Science of Behavior S tS(Penguin Books); BehapioredScience; International Journal of Neurw,.ier: Seymour B. Sarason Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale Univ-2:sity(1954). Lecturer, Department of Special Educadon, Boston University'1961-). Advisory Council, Connecticut Valley Hospital (1952-); Associate Editor, Joiantll ofAbnormal and Social Psychology(1958- ); Pwchzilogy Training Sub- committee, NIMH (1963- ).Previously, Directzr, Psycho-Educational Clinic, Yale University (1963-70). Special Leaveaf Absence to the Na- tional Association for Retarded Children to evaluate(with T. Gladwin) psychological and cultural research in this area(1957-J8). A.B. 1939, Rutgers (Newark, N.J.); M.A. 1940an.il Ph.D. 1942, Clark University. Recipient of Award for Distinguished Contributior :0Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association, September I 9. Michael Scriven Professor, Department of Philosophy, Universitif California, Berkeley (1966-). Chairman, Advisory Board forEvalualion, Central Midwestern Regional Educational Laboratory, Inc. (1968- 1: Board of Directors, Social Science Education, Inc. (1963-); Adviisory Board, World Law Fund, Secondary School Division (i966-); and evaluation consultant, Marin School Board, Social Studies .Proiect _(1969 ). Previously, Fellow, The Center for Advanced Study in theBehavioral Sciences (1963.-64); Vi Professor, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University (1960-66). B.A. Honors School of Mathematics and M.A. Combined Honors School of Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Melbourne; Ph.D. Oxford, School of Literae Humaniores. A member of the Editorial Boards of theEncyclopaedia of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly(1967- ),Metaphilosophy(1968- ); editorial consultant forScience(1963- );Professional Advisory Board, Institute for Rational Psychotherapy
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