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Direct linkCook, Sarah L. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
In this article, the author will focus on Seymour's article titled, "And What is the Public Interest?" (Sarason, 1986). To the author, the core of the article is as follows: "And what is the public interest? At its phenomenological root it is a picture of a triad: the individual, the society, and the bases on which they give meaning to each other.…
Descriptors: Altruism, Psychology, Social Problems, Social Psychology
Weinstein, Rhona S. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Seymour Bernard Sarason was born to Jewish immigrant parents on January 12, 1919, in Brooklyn, New York. He died on January 28, 2010, in New Haven, Connecticut, at the age of 91. He obtained his undergraduate degree in 1939 from Dana College in Newark (now Rutgers University), and earned his doctorate in clinical psychology in 1942 from Clark…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Change, Psychologists, Career Development
Primavera, Judy; Lorion, Raymond P.; Blank, Michael B. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
It is both an honor and fitting that the "Journal of Community Psychology" presents to the discipline a series of papers included within a symposium entitled "Seymour Sarason in Memorial: Prospects for Community and Social Change" at the Biennial Conference on Community Research and Action on June 18th, 2011, in Chicago Illinois. These papers…
Descriptors: Psychology, Social Change, Mentors, Recognition (Achievement)
Reppucci, N. Dickon – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Seymour was a renaissance man: widely read in not only psychology but also anthropology, sociology, philosophy, economics, political science, and most especially history. Seymour taught the author the value of being historically informed, which has been an invaluable tool ever since. Seymour had a way of conceptualizing and reformulating whatever…
Descriptors: Social Action, Social Change, Social Problems, Public Policy
Download full textInglis, Tom – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2009
In this article, the author talks about power, pleasure and community in a learning society. He argues that the resistance against the grand narratives or universal truths of this age is best achieved through the cultivation and development of local narratives and truths which are subject to continuous debate and critical reflection within a…
Descriptors: Community Education, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Resistance (Psychology)
Joffee, Monte; Goulah, Jason; Gebert, Andrew – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2009
This article presents a dialogue with Monte Joffee. Joffee has been an active leader in the small school and charter school movements in New York City for over 20 years. He is a cofounder of The Renaissance Charter School in New York City and served as its founding principal (1993-2007). In this dialogue, Joffee articulates the ways in which…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Charter Schools, Educational Philosophy, Human Geography
