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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:44:00 -0500
From:         Len.Lansky@UC.EDU
Subject:      help and bio

[len lansky 921211 1143 ]]
a little bio and request for help.

I am a social psychologist on faculty at University of Cincinnati
where I have been for past 30--count 'em--years.  Am still a
stranger in town.  Have many interests in the field: early work
was in personality theory/measurement and developmental,
especially sex roles and defense mechanisms; then worked on
educational issues--participative learning with new curricula of
post sputnik days; was in NTL, have done sensitivity training, od
(and have written about them as well as other items above and
below); some work on creativity in architects (with architect
John Peterson); and then work on handedness (also with Peterson)-
-might send questionnaire to persons on net some day--am curious
about handedess and demography; and more recently body image--
back to sex roles and measurement, eating disorders, etc.
Maintain strong interest in teaching, systems as well.
     Phil Runkel and I are friends from grad school days(I have
chapter in his book on college teaching; teach from his book with
McGrath on methods, have done od with him)) so I read, with great
joy and interest,  his "Casting Nets..." which got me interested
in control theory.  I wrote him via email, he called me back and
then I joined the net last year, have "joined the group"--
incidentally have not got most recent copy of  "Closed Loop"
although I did send in my annual dues--and that brings me to the
next topic.

     Help!!!!   I have agreed to teach a seminar on control
theory next quarter--begins in January--for ten weeks.  I have
the books and have been trying to understand and to classify the
traffic on the net.  My own understanding is still very limited;
thus I plan to learn along with the other participants--probably
3-10 graduate students in social, clinical, maybe experimental
psychology and maybe some from elsewhere--we have sent out some
publicity.

     BUT I have no sense of a sequence of readings or activities.
Has anyone worked out such, other than the intro text which seems
too elementary for the group I am working with?   I plan to xerox
or copy via computer the introductory statements by Dag.  But
where do I go from there?  Does anyone have a worked out sequence
for presenting the theory.  I am also trying to figure out how to
get copies of the various documents in the listing that Dag has
done to introduce the field.  I will solve that one.  Since we do
have access to computers, I plan to have the students sign onto
the CSG net to bug some of you on one or another topics--indeed
that might be a feasible assignment to enhance that student's
learning and those of us s/he then tells about it--and all of us
would have seen the traffic too.  But I do not have any feel for
a sequence.

     All offerings will be gratefully accepted.  I suspect a
start might be with a demonstration or two.  I do not know
enough, as of this writing, to ask more intelligent questions,
but hope to be able to do so by early next week.  You will be
hearing from me.  And I thank you all in advance.

     If you want to send me hard copy, address is

Len Lansky
Department of Psychology (32)
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OHIO 45220

Office phone is (513) 556-5549; fax is (513) 556-1904;
direct to me on computer is  Len.Lansky@uc.edu
Thanks again.

Len Lansky
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