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Who Has Shaped Our Profession?
February 4, 2011
To learn through listening, practice it naively and actively. Naively means that you listen openly, ready to learn something, as opposed to listening defensively, ready to rebut. Listening actively means you acknowledge what you heard and act accordingly.
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Shirley Center, Massachusetts, United States
A fabulous list!
I have been in this field for many, many years now - and running through all of these names was a walk down memory lane. I was especially pleased to see Lilian Katz' name so near the top, as I learned so very much from her writings, presentations, and research at the beginning of my career. This list is a must for all who teach, motivate, and inspire our newest colleagues. There is a rich legacy here!
Thank you -
BANANAS
CA, United States
I am disappointed with your list -- it seems very haphazard, repetitive and random. But mainly I would add Patty Siegel, June Sale and Abby Cohen as some very important missing persons.
Marshall, MO, United States
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The Childrens Center
Brookline, MA, United States
I too could not dwindle the list of those who helped shape, transform, inform and/or guide us. Some have opened and challenged our thinking, others have guided us in integrating our new understandings into new paradigms and practices. Many have championed for the under-served or the misunderstood. Our work with children and families has a breadth and depth that crosses disciplines in a way very few professions do. We draw from the fields of brain research, nutrition, medicine, sociology, technology, pediatrics, health, children & families, cultural studies, behavioral sciences, arts and sciences, language and literacy, teaching and learning, etc. And then, there are those who have enlightened us to currents of today like the Commercialization and Sexualization of Children, Bullying, or Nature Deprivation that have such a strong impact on the daily lives of our children. I think even if your list was expanded to 20, and I spent another hour in reflection, it would still have been impossible to determine who rose the surface. Too many people, whose work has been seminal to the high level of consciousness with which we do our work and strive to always move forward, would still have been left out. I honor all of you who could make the decision for the '10' I could not.
DeLand, FL, United States
I agree that this is a wonderful list and that choosing only 10 individuals is extremely difficult. I find it sad however that Helen Taylor, Carol Brunson Day, Jacqueline Jones, and Linda Espinosa did not make this list. Disappointing.
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