Leta Stetter Hollingworth: A pilgrim in research in her time and ours

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“…She used state-of-the-art technology, such as tape scripts of classroom interaction, psychographs, and photographic records. Analyzing the quality of Hollingworth’s research efforts, Benbow (1990) concluded the following: Leta Hollingworth’s research contributions must be viewed as a model to be aspired to even today. Although there are clear exceptions, the general research contributions in the field of gifted rarely have approached the standards she set.…”

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Leta Stetter Hollingworth: Champion of the psychology of women and gifted children.

Silverman¹

1992

Journal of Educational Psychology

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Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939, one of the most neglected pioneers of educational psychology, successfully challenged the prevailing scientific doctrine of women's inferior intelligence. Later in her career she established the field of gifted education, offering the first course and textbook in this area. In her tenure at Teachers College, Columbia University, she contributed major textbooks on mental retardation, adolescent psychology, and specific disabilities, as well as 80 scholarly papers. As the first psychologist in New York City, she helped establish professional standards for the field and was one of the few academicians who promoted and provided psychological services in the schools. She used the schoolroom as a laboratory for research. Her standards for research are exemplary even in modern times. Hollingworth was a courageous early leader in educational psychology who has finally begun to receive the recognition she deserves. BeginningsI was born May 25th, 1886, Tuesday morning at 12:30. Grandma and Mrs. Brainard dressed me then Mrs. O'Linn took me to the bed that my mamma was lying on for her to see me. She took me in her arms, kissed me, and said, "A little girl; isn't she sweet?" ... Now it was Friday and I had not seen my Papa yet. I was beginning to think I had no Papa or he was not very anxious to see his little girl. Uncle Willie sent him another telegram. (Your daughter is crying for her pa!)... Wednesday morning I heard Grandma tell Mamma that she saw somebody walking up the road with a white hat on. Mamma said, "Maybe it is Johnnie." Then I heard the door open-a man came in, walked up to the bed, kissed Mamma, then took me up in his arms, sat down on a chair by the side of the bed and took a good look at me-laughed-and said, "It's the prettiest baby I ever saw."I was looking at him too-I had been waiting eight days to see him and now I was wondering how well we would like each other. I had just about made up my mind that I was going to love him a great deal, when he said, "I'd give a thousand dollars if it was a boy." That made me so mad but I could not talk and tell Papa what I thought of him just then. It made Mamma angry too I think, because she said, "I would not give her for half a dozen boys." (H. L. Hollingworth, 1943, pp. 31-32) Johnnie Stetter never did get a son. His young wife, Margaret Danley Stetter, died giving birth to their third daughter, 3 years after the birth of their first child, Leta Stetter. Margaret left behind a small red leather-bound notebook in which she had carefully recorded a diary of the first year of Leta's life as Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Linda Kreger Silverman, Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, 777 Pearl Street, Denver, Colorado 80203. if written by the infant herself. It is intriguing how the first few paragraphs of her baby book seem to presage Leta Stetter Hollingworth's lifelong concern with the lack of equal rights for women. Her developmental milestones, as recorded in this little diary, in...

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Leta Stetter Hollingworth: Champion of the psychology of women and gifted children.

Silverman¹

1992

Journal of Educational Psychology

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Hollingworth,Leta S. (1886–1939)

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The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology

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Leta S. Hollingworth (1886–1939) is a figure of major importance in the history of clinical psychology, educational psychology, and the psychology of women. She was among the leaders of the movement to professionalize the field of clinical psychology, and greatly advanced society's understanding of intellectually gifted children. She was also a front‐runner of the feminist movement in psychology, writing on social factors that shaped and limited women's lives and challenging what she viewed as scientific misconceptions about women's abilities and intellectual potential.

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Leta Stetter Hollingworth: A pilgrim in research in her time and ours

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Leta Stetter Hollingworth: Champion of the psychology of women and gifted children.

Leta Stetter Hollingworth: Champion of the psychology of women and gifted children.

Hollingworth,Leta S. (1886–1939)

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