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Chapter 18 - Knocking on Doors that Opened for Me

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2022

By
Lauren B. Resnick
Edited by
Jamila Bookwala  and
Nicky J. Newton
Jamila Bookwala
Affiliation:
Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Nicky J. Newton
Affiliation:
Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
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“Knocking on Doors that Opened for Me” describes the life of Lauren B. Resnick, from growing up in New York City with a mother who refused to allow limits to be placed on her daughter, to a defining moment at Radcliffe College, to a Harvard graduate degree and a long career in cognitive psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Resnick writes of beginning as a research assistant at the Learning Research and Development Center at Pitt, one of the regional labs funded by the federal government, and ultimately rising to become its director. The chapter describes Resnick’s cofounding of the Institute for Learning and New Standards, organizations that linked researchers with practitioners, as well as her leadership roles in APA and AERA. Throughout, she conveys the excitement of being part of the field when fixed ideas about learning were being challenged both from within cognitive psychology and from new disciplines in the social sciences, broadening our conception of human capacity.

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Reflections from Pioneering Women in Psychology , pp. 228 - 239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Carroll, J. B., & Chall, J. S. (1975). Toward a literate society: The report of the committee on reading of the National Academy of Education. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.Google Scholar
Resnick, L. B., & Robinson, B. H. (1975). Motivational aspects of the literacy problem. In Carroll, J. B. & Chall, J. S. (Eds.), Toward a literate society: The report of the committee on reading of the National Academy of Education (pp. 257–277). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.Google Scholar

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