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The Lewin Legacy

Field Theory in Current Practice

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Eugene Stivers

    1. Department of Psychoeducational Processes, College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

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  2. Susan Wheelan

    1. Department of Psychoeducational Processes, College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

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Part of the book series: Recent Research in Psychology (PSYCHOLOGY)

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Lewin, then and now

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Approach as a Description of the Nature of Scientific Activity: Some Reflections and Suggestions

      • Tamara Dembo
      Pages 3-7

    3. Kurt Lewin and American Psychology: An Ambivalent Relationship

      • Miriam Lewin
      Pages 8-11

    4. Lewin’s Sphere of Influence from Berlin

      • Robert Kleiner, Frank Maguire
      Pages 12-20

    5. The man in Transition: Kurt Lewin and his Times

      • Vytautas J. Cernius
      Pages 21-29

    6. Kurt Lewin’s Influence on Social Emotional Climate Research in Germany and the United States

      • Matthias v. Saldern
      Pages 30-39

    7. Theoretical Positions of Kurt Lewin and Egon Brunswik — Controversial or Complementary Points of View?

      • Bernhard Wolf
      Pages 40-51

    8. Lewin and Current Developmental Theory

      • Kurt W. Back
      Pages 52-64

    9. Lewin and Social Science: A Theoretical Note

      • Albert Pepitone
      Pages 65-69

  3. Practical Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 70-71
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    3. Education

      1. Action Research as a Guiding Principle in an Educational Curriculum: The Lincoln University Master’s Program in Human Services
        • Steven Krupp, Robert F. DeHaan, Szabi Ishtai-Zee, Effie Bastas, Karen Castlebaum, Evelyn Jackson
        Pages 115-121
      2. Kurt Lewin’s Influence on Business Education
        • Gerald Biberman
        Pages 122-127
      3. Children in Cooperation and Competition: The role of Entitlement and Deservedness
        • Emmy A. Pepitone
        Pages 128-135
      4. Participants as Consultants to Themselves
        • Richard A. Schmuck
        Pages 136-144
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About this book

I have attended quite a few conferences and meetings devoted to the ideas of Kurt Lewin. Among these the 1984 conference at Temple was out­ standing for its high quality. What made it so successful? Several things. The conference included a stimulating mix of generations. The first generation of women who obtained their Ph. D. 's in psychology in Berlin in the 1920's strike me as a remarkable group. Now in their 80's, they are characterized by enormous vigor and energy. They are still professionally active. Two of them - Tamara Dembo and Maria Rickers­ Ovsienkina - joined us. Other participants in the Temple conference had been in Iowa in the 1930's and 1940's, or at MIT. Of course there were many who had learned about Lewin from their own teachers, and in some cases, their teachers' teachers. There was a good mixture of ap­ plied psychologists and academics. Father said on several occasions that he did not want to found a school of psychology as such. Rather he wanted to introduce the field theoretical viewpoint and approach. I think he would have been stimulated by and enthusiastic about the many diverse areas to which Lewinian analy­ ses, ideas, and concepts are applied today, as illustrated by this volume. He would have been pleased to see so many people applying basic theoreti­ cal concepts to important social problems. Father loved to discover new things about America.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychoeducational Processes, College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

    Eugene Stivers, Susan Wheelan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Lewin Legacy

  • Book Subtitle: Field Theory in Current Practice

  • Editors: Eugene Stivers, Susan Wheelan

  • Series Title: Recent Research in Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8030-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96352-5Published: 01 June 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-8030-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-7532

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 282

  • Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general

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