Freda Rebelsky (1931 – July 20, 2009) was American psychologist, a researcher and an educator.
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“A Challenger, a Rebel, and a Popular Teacher”
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Her last position was Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...
College of Arts and Sciences professor emerita. In 1996, after serving as professor for 34 years, she retired and became a motivational speaker advocating for social justice
Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has of ...
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Books
*1960: (with Lynn Dorman) ''Child Development and Behavior''
*1975: ''Life the continuous process: Readings in human development''
Awards
She won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 1978. She was the first female psychologist to win the E. Harris Harbison Award for Gifted Teachers from the Danforth Foundation[ and the 1970 Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association.American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award and the Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology Awards: 1970.]
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See also
*Water-level task
The water-level task is an experiment in developmental and cognitive psychology developed by Jean Piaget and Bärbel Inhelder. The experiment attempts to assess the subject's spatial reasoning. The subject is shown an upright bottle or glass w ...
References
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1931 births
2009 deaths
20th-century American psychologists
University of Chicago alumni
Harvard University alumni
Boston University faculty