Robert James Havighurst

 

Personal Vita

10/11/90

Compiled by Roger Hiemstra

 

Record_type

Person

 

Main_entry

Robert James Havighurst.

[Robert J. Havighurst; Dr. Havighurst]

 

Source

Compiled by Roger Hiemstra, October, 1990; data gathered by various students gathering biographical information.

 

Bio/hist_note

Born in Depere, WI, son of Freeman A. and Winifred (Weter) Havighurst. Married Esythe D. McNelly, 1930-06-21. He had five children, James Parsons, Walter M., Helen (Mrs. Marvin S. Berk), Ruth (Mrs. Samuel H. Neff), and Dorothy (Mrs. Thomas Kucera). He served in the U.S. Army, 1918.

[sources: various student papers, authors unknown; CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, 1974, 388; WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION, 1968; LEADERS IN EDUCATION, 1974]

 

Begin_date

19000605

 

Source_B_date

 

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, 1974, 388.

 

Education

 

1918-21--B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University.

1922--M.A., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

1924--Ph.D., Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

1953-54--Fulbright Scholar, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

1961--Fulbright Scholar, University of Buenos Aires.

1962--Hon. D.Sc., Adelphi University.

1963--Hon. L.L.D., Ohio Wesleyan University (one unnamed source said this degree was awarded in 1964).

[sources: various student papers, authors unknown; CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, 1974, 388; WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION, 1968; LEADERS IN EDUCATION, 1974]

 

Work_history

1924-26--National Research Council Fellow in Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

1927-28--Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Miami University, Oxford, OH.

1928-32--Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

1932-34--Associate Professor of Science Education, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

1934-37--Assistant Director, Rockefeller Foundation, General Education Board, New York, NY.

1937-41--Director, Rockefeller Foundation, General Education Board, New York, NY.

1941-present--Professor of Education and Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

1947-50--Department Chair, Education and Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

1956-58--Co-director, Government Center for Educational Research, Brazil.

1963-64--Director for Survey Research, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago.

1965-67--Visiting Professor, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO.

1967-68--Visiting Professor, Fordham University.

1968-70--Director of a National Study on American Indian

Education.

[sources: various student papers, authors unknown; CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, 1974, 388; WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION, 1968; LEADERS IN EDUCATION, 1974]

 

Assoc_subjects

Adult Needs

AGED

Comparative Education

Developmental Tasks

Educational Needs

Human Development

Indian Education

Lifelong Learning

Social Psychology of Education

SOCIAL ROLES of Adulthood

Sociology of Education

Teachable Moment

Urban Education

[sources: various student papers, authors unknown; CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, 1974, 388; WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION, 1968; LEADERS IN EDUCATION, 1974]

 

Assoc_people

Bernice L. Neugarten

Betty Orr

[source: Roger Hiemstra]

 

Assoc_organiz

American Association of University Professors [AAUP]

American Educational Research Association

American Psychology Association (Chair, Division of Maturity and Old Age, 1960)

American Sociological Association

Gerontology Society (President, 1957-58)

National Academic Educators

National Society for the Study of Education

Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Delta Kappa

Phi Delta Theta

Sigma Xi

[sources: various student papers, authors unknown; CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, 1974, 388; WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION, 1968; LEADERS IN EDUCATION, 1974]

 

Assoc_evnt/proj

Identification of ten social roles of adulthood: Worker, mate, parent, homemaker, son or daughter of aging parents, citizen,

friend, organization member, religious affiliate, and user of leisure time.

[source: Roger Hiemstra]

 

Assoc_places

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

[source: Roger Hiemstra]

 

Publications

Numerous articles, monographs, books, and book chapters.

Some of his important works are as follows:

 

Havighurst, Robert J. WHO SHALL BE EDUCATED?: THE CHALLENGE OF UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES. New York: Harper, 1944.

 

Havighurst, Robert J.; and Davis, Allison. FATHER OF THE MAN: HOW YOUR CHILD GETS HIS PERSONALITY. New York: Houghton, 1947.

 

Havighurst, Robert J.; and Neugarten, Bernice L. AMERICAN INDIAN AND WHITE CHILDREN: A SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.

 

Havighurst, Robert J.; Stivers, Eugene; and DeHaan, Robert F. A SURVEY OF THE EDUCATION OF GIFTED CHILDREN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.

 

Gross, Irma; Havighurst, Robert J.; and others (Eds.). POTENTIALITIES OF WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE YEARS. E. Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1957.

 

Havighurst, Robert J.; and DeHann, Robert F. EDUCATING GIFTED CHILDREN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.

 

Havighurst, Robert J.; and others. GROWING UP IN RIVER CITY. New York: Wiley, 1962.

 

Havighurst, Robert J.; Neugarten, Bernice L.; and Falk, Jacqueline M. SOCIETY AND EDUCATION: A BOOK OF READINGS. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1967.

 

Havighurst, Robert J., (Ed.). COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION. New York: Little and Brown, 1968.

 

Havighurst, Robert J.; and others. ADJUSTMENT TO RETIREMENT: A CROSS-NATIONAL STUDY. Van Gorcum, 1969.

 

Havighurst, Robert J. DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS AND EDUCATION. McKay, 1972.

 

Havighurst, Robert J. TO LIVE ON THIS EARTH: AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION. New York: Doubleday, 1972.

 

Havighurst, Robert J. OPTOMETRY: EDUCATION FOR THE PROFESSION. National Commission on Accrediting, 1973.