Margery B. Franklin

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September, 2004

Education

Clark University, M.A. 1956; Ph.D. 1961

Swarthmore College, B.A. 1954 [Psychology Honors]

Teaching, research, and administrative positions

Sarah Lawrence College, Director, Child Development Institute, 2003-present; Psychology Faculty, 1975-2002; Roy E. Larsen Professor of Psychology, 1994-2001; Director, Master of Arts Graduate Program in Child Development, 1990-1997; member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Child Development Institute, 1988-2003.

Vassar College, Department of Psychology; Instructor, 1960-62; Assistant professor, 1962-64

Bank Street College of Education, Research Associate and project director, part-time, 1967-1972

Professional membership and positions

American Psychological Association, Fellow.� President, Division 10, Psychology & the Arts, 1990-1991; council representative, 1995-1996; member-at-large, executive committee, Division 10, 1987-1990. 2000-�� Member of Divisions 7, 10, 24, 26

Society for Research in Child Development

Consultant to project, “Learning In and Through the Arts,” Center for Arts Education Research, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1997-1999; Arts Connection, 2001.

Editorial board, Children’s Environments Quarterly, 1989-1991, Children’s Environments, 1992-1996

Grants and awards

Honorary degree, Doctor of Education, Wheelock College, 2001

Bank of New York Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996 Flik Travel Grant for Faculty Research, Sarah Lawrence College, 1988

Hewlett-Mellon Faculty Grant, for research on artistic development, Fall, 1987

Hewlett-Mellon Faculty Grant, for symbolizing activities in early childhood, Summer, 1981

Boehm Foundation Grant (to J. Drucker & M.B. Franklin), research on children’s play, 1977-78

Current primary interests

Children’s use of language in relation to symbolic functioning, communication, and the organization of experience; psychology of art and play; progressive educational theory and practice.

Publications [selected]: Edited books, books chapters, articles, and reviews

Franklin, M.B. (2004). Guide to Observing Young Children in School. Occasional Paper #7, Child Development Institute, Sarah Lawrence College.

Franklin, M.B. (2004). Prologue to H. Werner, Comparative Psychology of Mental Development. Gardiner, NY: Percheron Press.

Franklin, M.B. (2001). The artist speaks: Sigmund Koch on aesthetics and creative work. American Psychologist, 56 (5), 445-452

Franklin, M.B. (2000), Meanings of play in the developmental-interaction tradition. In� N. Nager & E.K. Shapiro (Eds.), Revisiting a progressive pedagogy, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press [also issued as Occasional Paper #1, Child Development Institute, Sarah Lawrence College]

Franklin, M.B. (2000), Considerations for a psychology of experience: Heinz Werner’s contribution. Journal of Adult Development, 7 (1), 31-40

Franklin, M.B. (1999), Forging links in narratives of creative work: Causes, precursors, and sources. Journal of Aesthetic Education, 33 (1), 72-79

Franklin, M.B. (1997), Making sense: Interviewing and narrative representation. In M.M.Gergen & S.N. Davis (Eds.), Toward a new psychology of gender, New York: Routledge

Franklin, M.B. (1997). A retrospective essay review of Heinz Werner’s Comparative psychology of mental development. Contemporary Psychology, 42 (6), pp. 481-486

Franklin, M.B. (1995). Review of Children at play. A. Slade & D.P. Wolfe (Eds.). �Children’s Environments, 12 (3), 397-399

Franklin, M.B. (1995). Review of Art making and education. M. Brown & D. Korzenik (Eds). Teachers College Record, 97 (2), 342-345

Franklin, M.B. (1992). Review of Settlers’ Children: Growing up on the Great Plains by E. Hampton. Children’s Environments, 9 (1), 78-80

Franklin, M.B., & Kaplan, B. (Eds.) (1994). Development and the arts: Critical perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Franklin, M.B. (1994). A feeling for words: Arnheim on language. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 21 (4), 261-268

Franklin, M.B. (1994). Narratives of change and continuity: Women artists reflect on their work. In M.B. Franklin & B. Kaplan (Eds.), Development and the arts: Critical perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Wallace, D.B., Franklin, M.B., and Keegan, R.T. (1992). The observing eye: A century of baby diaries. Human Development, 37 (1), 1-29

Franklin, M.B., Becklen, R.C., & Doyle, C.L. (1993). The influence of titles on how paintings are seen. Leonardo, 26 (2), 103-108

Wallace, D.B., Franklin, M.B., & Keegan, R.T. (1992). Baby diaries. In B.K. Roth (Ed.), �Encyclopedia of child-rearing: Critical perspectives. �Phoenix Arizona: The Oryx Press

Franklin, M.B. (1990). Reshaping psychology at Clark: The Werner era. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 26 (2), 176-189

Franklin, M.B., & Barten, S.S.� (Eds.) (1988). Child language: A reader. New York: Oxford University Press

Franklin, M.B. (1986). Words on play [review of Analyzing children’s play dialogues, F. Kessel & A. Goncu, Eds.]. Contemporary Psychology, 31, 147

Franklin, M.B. (1983). Imaginary worlds take shape: A study of creative work in sculpture. Leonardo, 16, 212-216

Franklin, M.B. (1983). Play as the creation of imaginary situations. In S. Wapner & B. Kaplan (Eds.), Toward a holistic developmental psychology (pp. 197-220). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Franklin, M.B. (1981). Perspectives on theory: Another look at the developmental-interaction point of view. In E.K. Shapiro & E. Weber (Eds.). Cognitive and affective growth: Developmental interaction (pp. 65-84). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Smith, N.R., & Franklin, M.B. (Eds.). (1979). Symbolic functioning in childhood. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Franklin, M.B. (1979). Metalinguistic functioning in development. In N.R. Smith & M.B. Franklin (Eds.), Symbolic functioning in childhood (pp. 199-218). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Barten, S.S. & Franklin, M.B. (Eds.) (1978). Developmental processes: Heinz Werner’s selected writings. Vols. I & II. New York: International universities Press

Franklin, M.B. & Biber, B. (1977). Psychological perspectives and early childhood education: Some relations between theory and practice. In L. Katz (Ed.), Current topics in early childhood education. Vol. I (pp. 1-31). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Reprinted in B. Biber, Early education and psychological development, Yale University Press, 1984

Dore, J., Franklin, M.B., Miller, R.T., & Ramer, A.L.H. (1976). Transitional phenomena in early language acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 3, 13-28.

Franklin, M.B. (1975). Aspects of symbolic functioning in childhood. In C.B. Winsor (Ed.), Dimensions of language experience (pp. 26-41). New York: Agathon Press.

Franklin, M.B. (1973). Non-verbal representation in young children: A cognitive perspective. �Young Children, 29, 33-53

Film projects

Contributed to conceptualization and realization of two 30 minute documentary videos �produced by Jonathan Diamond Associates in collaboration with the SLC Child Development Institute, and aired on public television stations across the U.S.A.

When a Child Pretends (1999); From Pictures to Words (2003).