I am beginning work on my PhD concerning the relationship of training animals and educating people - it will focus a lot on operant conditioning (Skinner), evolution (Darwin), and various other issues concerning learning and the connection between the animal and the human. Does anyone out there have any thoughts or ideas??? Mary Joan

-- Mary Joan Hinson (millcreekfarm1397@msn.com), July 12, 2003

Answers

If you haven't yet, the first thing you should do is read the Brelands' 1961 Amer. Psych. paper, "The Misbehavior of Organisms." You can findit online at http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Breland/misbehavior.htm

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), July 13, 2003.

With regard to Skinner, I should recommend you the following items:

The science of learning and the art of teaching. Harvard Educational Review, 1954, 24, 86-97.

Teaching machines. Science, 1958, 128, 969-77.

The use of teaching machines in college instruction (Parts II-IV). In A. A. Lumsdaine & R. Glaser (Eds.), Teaching machines and programmed learning: A source book. Washington, DC: Department of Audio-Visual Instruction, National Education Association, 1960, pp. 159-72. (with J. G. Holland)

Reflections on a decade of teaching machines. Teachers College Record, 1963, 65, 168-77.

Teaching science in high school--What is wrong? Science, 1968, 159, 704-10.

The technology of teaching. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.

-- Gabriel Ruiz (gruiz@us.es), July 14, 2003.