Historical Perspective

Study in the field of psychosocial
Earliest work
1. Thomas in 1920s in USA
- observation and and recording of explicit classroom phenomena
2. Lewin's Field Theory, 1936
- Behaviour as a function of person and environment
3. Murray(1938), Stren, Stein & Bloom (1956) and PAce & Stern(1958)
- need-press theory- persons are conceptualised in terms of their psychological needs and the environment in terms of press
4. Pace (1963)
-'needs and press interact to guide behaviour'
5. Glenn (1984)
- needs determine th behaviour of a person
6. Stern ( 1970)
- degree of a person-environment congruence is related to stds' outcomes
7. Fraser (1994)
- person-environment fit studies- congruence between actual and preferred environments is assessed and related to std's outcome.
8. Moos and Walberg (1960s)
Moo's three dimensions of human environment - realtionships, eprsonal development and systems change and systems maintenance
Walberg's - students make summary judgement of the environment, can be used to improve the LE.
9. Timothy Leary - A person's interpersonal behaviour couldbe described in two ways
- influence dimension- ranges from dominant to submissive
- proximity dimension- ranges from cooperative to oppositional
Combinations of these in eight sectors- one can be submissive cooperative or dominant cooperative.. Teachers use this model to influence classroom events( CLE)