Joseph Glick

Developmental Psychology

office: 6303.26
phone: 212.817.8706
email: jglick@gc.cuny.edu

Executive Officer, Psychology

Current Projects

• Cultural Psychology
• Adult Development
• Developmental Theory
• Activity Theory
• Development of Knowing; Socio-cultural and socio-historical issues in developmental analysis
• Epistemology

Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1956 B.A.

Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
1959 M.A.

Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
1964 Ph.D.

My main theoretical interest is in understanding the dynamic relationship between developmental theories and what they take as the object that they study. Theories differ not so much in explanation as in what they take to be core and interesting phenomena. It is only by understanding the phenomenon/theory relationship that we can truly evaluate the contribution that any theory might make to what we wish to understand.

Substantively, I have been interested in developing a conception of development and of developmental change which identifies the "layered" aspect of psychological functioning, where one sees developmental processes as composed on multiple levels, with multiple levels of influence operating, with shifting patterns of dominance, depending on the particulars of situation. Thus, developmental theory would have to develop both a language to describe the layering of processes and a language to describe the powerful aspects of the situation. This work has been explored both in cross-cultural studies of people in Africa, Mexico and the United States, as well as in studies of adult development in changing workplaces, both in the United States and in Germany.

Papers and Publications

1965 Reflections on the study of the development of creativity. In J. Morrison (Ed.), A Longitudinal Study of Creative Behavior in the Arts, 43-53. Cooperative Research Project V-001, UCLA.

1966 An experimental analysis of subject-object relationships in perception. In S. Wapner and B. Kaplan (Eds.), Essays in Honor of Heinz Werner. Worcester, Massachusetts: Clark University Press. Reprinted in R. Haber (Ed.), Contemporary Theory and Research in Visual Perception, New York: Holt Rinehart, 1968.

1966 The right answer isn't good enough. Grade Teacher, 83, 80-82. Reprinted in The Education Digest, 31, 12-14, 1966.

1966 Effects of variation in distance betwen subject and object on space localization (with S. Wapner). Percept. Mot Skills, 23, 438.

1968 Some problems in the evaluation of pre-school intervention programs. In R. Hess and R. Bear (Eds.), Early Education: Report on research and action. Chicago: Aldine, 1968. Reprinted in Anderson, R. E. and Shane, H.G., As the Twig is Bent: Readings in early childhood education. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.

1968 Reversal and non-reversal shifts among the Kpele of Liberia (with M. Cole and J. Gay). Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 323-324.

1968 Conceptual and memonic factors in paired associate learning (with M. Cole, W. Kessen, and D. Sharp). Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 6, 120-130.

1968 Ontogenetic changes in transitivity (with S. Wapner). Child Development, 39, 621-638.

1968 A cross-cultural investigation of information processing (with M. Cole, J. Gay, and D. Sharp). International Journal of Psychology, 3, 83-102.

1969 Linguistic structure and transposition (with M. Cole, J. Gay, and D. Sharp). Science, 1969, 194, 90-91.

1969 The influence of identity of objects on whiteness constancy (with M. Fatouros). Ergonomics, 1969, 12, No. 6. Reprinted in Welford, A.T. and Houssiadas (Eds.), Contemporary problems in perception.

1969 Thinking about thinking: Some developmental studies among the Kpelle of Liberia. Paper read at the American Anthropological Association Meetings.

1970 Concept formation: Kpelle and American style. Paper delivered at American Anthropological Association Meeting, November 19, 1970, San Diego, California.

1971 Evaluation of day care centers: Summative and formative. In E. Grotberg (Ed.). Day Care: Resources for decisions, 442-456 OEO Pamphlet 6106-1, June 1971 (with F. Palmer and C. Cazden).

1971 Cognitive development. Developmental Psychology Today. Del Mar, California: Communications Research Machines, Inc., 1971.

1971 Is autokinetic motion related to experienced displacement? American Journal of Psychology, 84, No. 2, 210-217.

1972 Identity and equivalance conservation: The role of rules and empirical relations (with E. Moynihan). Developmental Psychology, 1972, 6, 247-251.

1974 The Emperor's new clothes. Presented at International SRCD, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 1974.

1974 The Pediatric clinic play room: A classroom for parents of preschoolers (with A. Morris). in Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 45, No. 2, March 1975, and presented at Orthopsychiatry Meetings, Washington, DC, 1974.

1975 Nominal realism and mediation (with E. Gerschitz). Presented at Jean Piaget Society meeting.

1975 Some motions about reading. In S. White (Ed.), Conference on Studies in Reading. Washington, DC, Department HEW, NIE, 1975.

1976 Educational intervention for pre-school children in Pediatric clinic (with A. Morris). Pediatrics, 57, 765-768.

1976 Cognitive development in cross-cultural perspective. In Horowitz et. al., (Eds.), Vol. IV. Review of Child Development Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1977 Culture and cognition: Some theoretics and methodological issues. In Spindler, G., (Ed.), Education and Cultural Process.

1977 The Emperor's new clothes. In Riegel, K. (Ed.), The Developing Individual in a Changing World. The Hague: Mouton.

1978 Cognitive and Social Development, Vol. I. New York: Gardner Press (edited with A. Clarke-Stewart). New York: Gardner Press.

1978 Cognition and social cognition: An introduction. In J. Glick and A. Clarke-Stewart Cognitive and Social Development, Vol. I. New York: Gardner Press.

1978 The effect of Context on Mother Child Interaction: A Progress Report (with Z. Graves). In the Quarterly Newsletter of the Institute of Comparative Human Development, Vol. 2, 3.

1978 Functional and structural aspects of cognition. In I. Sigel, Piagetian Theory: New directions, new applications..

1981 Nominal realism and mediation (with E. Gershitz). Journal of Genet. Psychology, 139, 173-183.

1981 Functional and structural aspects of rationality in I. Sigel, D. Brodzinsky and R. Golinkoff (Eds.), New Directions in Piagetian Theory and Practice. Hillsdale, N.J.: LEA.

1981 The social ecology of the sick kid (with S. Salzinger and J. Antrobus). New York: Academic Press.

1984 Merds that laugh don't like mushrooms: Evidence for deductive reasoning by preschoolers. Developmental Psychology. 20, no. 4, pp. 584-594 (with J. Hawkins, R. Pea and S. Scribner).

1985 Piaget, Vygotsky, and Werner in S. Wapner and B. Kaplan (Eds.), Toward an Holistic Developmental Psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: LEA.

1985 Culture and cognition revisited. In E. Neimark (Ed.), Cultural Amplifiers of Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: LEA.

1987 Bilingualism: Cognitive and social aspects. In M. Palij and P. Homel (Eds.), Childhood bilingualism: Aspects of linguistic cognition and social development. Hillsdale, NJ: LEA

1989 If only they were metaphors. Paper presented at SRCD, Kansas City, MO.

1991 Postmodern psychology: Cultural psychology and apprenticeship. Cognitive Development, 6, No. 3, pp. 343-353.

1992 Heinz Werner's relevance for contemporary developmental psychology. Developmental Psychology, 28, No. 4.

1992 Expertise and the market economy: The Former GDR (with E. Laufer).

1992 The relative roles of on-the-job training and classroom education for workers learning MRP-II effectively (with L. DiBello). Presented at APICS Society meetings, special academic session. Montreal, Canada, October 1992. Published in conference proceedings.

1992 Constructive and procedural forms of MRP-II expertise (with L. DiBello). APICS Bulletin. (submitted)

1992 Discursive measures of cognitive structure (with K. Beach and E. Zazanis).

1992 Ratio concepts in the eye, the hand, the scale and activity systems (with K. Beach and E. Zazanis).

1992 Steps in the long march: From principles to practices. Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, 14, No. 4.

1992 Coordination of knowledge systems. Eastern Psychological Association, April, 1992.

1992 (With L. DiBello). The relative roles of on-the-job training and classroom education for workers learning MRP-II effectively. Presented at APICS Society meetings, special academic session. Montreal, Canada, October 1992. Published in conference proceedings.

1992 (With L. Dibello, E. Zazanis, and J. Kindred). Interaction at work. Papers presented at University of Pennsylvania, Program for assessing and revitalizing the social sciences.

1993 Distance education: Issues and policy summary (with H. Birenbaum, K. Kinsler, D. Choriki and E. Kelly). Report to NYNEX (75 pages).

1993 Intellectual and manual labor: Implications for developmental theory. In L. Martin, K. Nelson and E. Tobach (Eds.), Cultural Psychology and Activity Theory. NY: Cambridge University Press.

1993 Introduction (with L. Martin and M. Cole). In L. Martin, K. Nelson, and E. Tobach (Eds.), Cultural Psychology and Activity Theory. NY: Cambridge University Press.

1993 Work and learning. Presented at AERA meetings, Atlanta, GA, April 1993.

1993 (With L. Dibello). Technology and minds in an uncertain world. To be presented at National Society for Performance and Instruction, Chicago, IL, April 1993.

1993 Distance education: Issues and policy summary (with H. Birenbaum, K. Kinsler, D. Choriki and E. Kelly). Report to New York Telephone (75 pages).

1993 Final Report: Adult development in the workplace. (With L. DiBello, J. Kindred & E. Zazanis)

1993 How we got here. School and Work Relations. Paper presented at NATO conference on discourse, tools and technology Lucca, Italy, November, 1993

1993 (With L. Dibello). Technology and minds in an uncertain world. Presented at National Society for Performance and Instruction, Chicago, IL, April 1993.

1995 Intellectual and manual labor: Implications for developmental theory. In L. Martin, K. Nelson and E. Tobach (Eds.), Cultural Psychology and Activity Theory. NY: Cambridge Universi Press.

1995 A cultural-historical approach to the cultural-historical approach: From principles to practices. In L. Resnick, Discourse and reasoning.

1995 Piaget Society Meeting, Berkeley, CA, June, Selves and the holocaust: Survival of bodies; Survival of ideas.

1995 AERA Meeting. San Francisco, CA, April, 1995 The workplace and the schoolroom. How do they relate?

1997 Prologue to Vol IV The Collected works of Vygotsky: History of the development of higher mental functions. NY: Plenum Press

1998 A cultural-historical approach to the cultural-historical approach: From principles to practices. In L. Resnick, R. Saljo & C. Pontecorvo (Eds) Discourse tools and reasoning. NY: Springer Verlag

2004 The History of the Development of Higher Mental Functions in Rober W. Rieber and David K. Robinson (Eds.) The Essential Vygotsky. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers