Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breast? Keep an intelligent seven-year-old illegally out of school on the tendentious grounds that he hasn't yet asked to go? Permit children to defecate on the floor, Or break up the chairs in a rented, furnished house? Even the most dogmatically permissive parent or psychologist would certainly draw the line. Yet Tarl Pracket, the strange antiheroine of Bell Call, brings up her children just like that-and such is the hallucinatory power of the author that for brief instants Tarl even seems to have a valid case...
Discovery Method. The era was opened by such men as Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner, who perceived that "any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development." The theory became practice at M.I.T., where a study group headed by Jerrold Zacharias devised a new high school physics course in 1956 based on the notion that it was more fun, and more instructive, to understand the principles of physics by performing experiments rather than by memorizing a mass of facts and rarely testing them in the lab. The system was called...
...adult society. They are dumped into a society of their peers, whose habitats are the halls and classrooms of their schools, the teen-age canteens, the corner drugstore, the automobile." That is where teen-agers get their tastes and values. "They're in cahoots now," says Columbia Psychologist Arthur Jersild...
...bound, but they are the exceptions. For most slum kids, says Hunter College Sociologist Ernest Smith, "the American dream is not the American fact. These children cannot respond to what is being taught, and most educators resist changing the curriculums to aid these children." Kenneth B. Clark, New York psychologist and civil rights leader, holds that "the Negro kid who drops out of school is probably doing so to protect himself from a system designed to throw him on the dung heap of our society...
...Helen Brown, an unmarried psychologist who has written a bestseller called Sex and the Single Girl, Natalie brusquely cleans her hornrimmed glasses from time to time to show that she means business. Tony Curtis, a smutmonger for Stop magazine, described by its editors as "the most disgusting scandal sheet the human mind can recall," wants to write an expose of her. His working title is "Does She or Doesn't She?" She doesn't, of course, and remains a brunette to the end. To get his story, Tony goes to seek her professional advice, posing as an eager...