Theodora Mead Abel

Theodora Mead Abel (an haife ta a ranar 9 ga watan Satumba, na shekara ta 1899 - 2 ga Disamba, 1998) masaniyar ilimin halayyar dan adam ce kuma malami, wadda ta yi amfani da sababbin ra'ayoyi ta hanyar hada ilimin zamantakewa da ilimin halayya. Ta kasance majagaba a cikin ilimin halayyar al'adu.Ware, Susan.  Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century, Volume 5, p. 2 (Harvard University Press, 2004).

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Theodora Mead a Newport, Rhode Island, a ranar 9 ga Satumba, 1899,  kuma ta girma a Birnin New York. A shekara ta 1917, ta kammala karatu daga Makarantar Miss Chapin, inda ta kasance shugabar gwamnatin dalibai.

Abel ta halarci Kwalejin Vassar kuma ta sami B.A. a 1921. A shekara ta 1924, ta sami MA daga Jami'ar Columbia, inda daya daga cikin farfesa ita ce Leta Stetter Hollingworth .  Daga nan ta halarci Jami'ar Paris kuma ta sami digiri a fannin ilimin halayyar dan adam a 1923. Digirinta na karshe ya fito ne daga Columbia kuma ya kasance Ph.D., a cikin 1925.

 Ayyuka 
Bayan ta sami karatunta, Theodora ta yi amfani da lokaci a matsayin malami. Ta koyar a Jami'ar Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1925-1926), Kwalejin Sarah Lawrence (1929-1933), da kuma Makarantar Ciniki ta Manhattan don 'yan mata.

Daga nan sai ta shiga duniyar farar hula. Ta yi aiki a Ma'aikatar Kiwon Lafiya ta Jihar New York daga 1940 har zuwa 1946, a matsayin babban masanin halayyar dan adam. A shekara ta 1947, ta ɗauki matsayin darektan ilimin halayyar dan adam a Cibiyar Nazarin Lafiya ta Birnin New York, matsayin da ta rike na tsawon shekaru 24.

A shekara ta 1971, bayan ta koma New Mexico, ta zama shugabar maganin iyali a Cibiyar Kula da Yara, a Albuquerque, inda ta kuma kafa aiki mai zaman kanta. Yayinda take New Mexico, ta gudanar da nazarin Mutanen Puebloan.

Ta rubuta littattafai da yawa ciki har da: 

 Yarinyar Matashiyar da ba ta dace ba (1940) 
 Rashin fuska (1952) 
 Gwajin tunani a cikin Al'adun Al'adu (1973) 
 Al'adu da Magunguna (1974) 

Na ƙarshe daga cikin waɗannan littattafai huɗu sun haɗa da gabatarwa ta Margaret Mead, wanda Abel ya sadu da shi a lokacin makarantar digiri a Columbia. Sun zama abokai bayan sun yi layi a cikin haruffa (duka suna da sunan karshe "Mead" amma ba su da alaƙa).

 wucewa 
Abel ya mutu a Forestburgh, New York, a ranar 2 ga Disamba, 1998, yana da shekaru 99. 

Mijinta, Theodore Abel, ya mutu a shekarar 1988. Sun sami 'ya'ya mata biyu Caroline (Abel) Lalire da Zita (Abel), Emerson da ɗa Peter Abel, tare da jikoki da jikoki.

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1998