School Ties: A Psychiatrist's Longtime Commitment to Education

Autor/in	Dubin, Jennifer
Titel	School Ties: A Psychiatrist's Longtime Commitment to Education
Quelle	In: American Educator, 37 (2013) 1, S.20-25 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0148-432X
Schlagwörter	Psychiatry; Individual Development; Hermeneutics; Child Development; Aptitude Treatment Interaction; Teacher Student Relationship; Early Experience; Career Development; Developmentally Appropriate Practices; Educational Strategies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychiatrie; Individuelle Entwicklung; Hermeneutik; Kindesentwicklung; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Frühbeginn; Berufsentwicklung; Entwicklungsbezogene Bildung; Lehrstrategie
Abstract	Almost 60 years have passed since Dr. James Comer last saw three of his elementary school friends, yet he vividly remembers them. They were African American boys just like him. They, too, came from two-parent homes, and their fathers also worked in the local steel mill. But unlike Comer and his siblings, these three youngsters did not take an interest in academics. They grew up to lead hard lives: one died from alcoholism, a second was in and out of jail, and a third was in and out of mental institutions. As a young man, the question that always haunted Comer was why. To understand how promising lives sometimes falter and fail, Comer decided to learn about people. And so he trained in psychiatry at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His work in the early 1960s at the university's Child Study Center taught him that many adult problems are actually rooted in childhood. In 1968, Comer and his colleagues at the center created the School Development Program. The program focuses on improving relationships among the adults in schools--teachers, administrators, other staff members, and parents--so they can foster academic achievement and support student development. A look at Comer and his life's work provides valuable insights into the ways that educators and schools can connect with children. (Contains 32 endnotes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Federation of Teachers. 555 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001. Tel: 202-879-4400; e-mail: amered@aft.org; Web site: http://www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10