Before completing my doctorate in developmental psychology at Clark University in 1961, I began teaching at Vassar. I came to Sarah Lawrence in 1965. From 1967 1972, I was also a Research Associate at Bank Street College. My central interests in psychology are early language and symbolization, children's representation of personal experience and real world knowledge in art-making and play, narratives of development in the arts, developmental theory, and the history of developmental psychology. I am also deeply interested in photography and its history, and in making photographic images.
Fellow,
American Psychological Association
Past president, Division of Psychology & the Arts, American Psychological
Association
Member, Society for Research in Child Development
Member, Soho Photo Gallery
e-mail:: mbf@mail.slc.edu
CURRENT COURSES
Developmental
Psychology and Educational Perspectives: First Year Studies 2001-2002
PAST COURSES
Meaning Making in Language Development - Spring 2001
Art
and Play in Childhood - Fall 2000
Toward
a Psychology of Experience with
Charlotte Doyle
Spring, 2000
Issues in Development with Sara Wilford, Spring 2000
Art, Play, and Narrative, Spring 1999
Psychology of the Educational Process, Fall, 1998
Language Development, Spring 1998
INFO
ON VIDEO: "When a Child Pretends"
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