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Lawrence, Janet H.; Blackburn, Robert T. – Journal of Higher Education, 1988
Two studies on faculty aging--one using a psychological/developmental framework and the other a sociological/socialization model--are critiqued. A life-course perspective is introduced and the questions raised by the methodology are discussed. The contributions of the life-course framework are demonstrated. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Age, Aging in Academia, College Faculty, Faculty Publishing
Greenberger, Ellen; Sorensen, Aage B. – 1971
The first in a series of related reports (see TM 000 775), this paper attempts to define a concept of psychosocial maturity which would be appropriate as a comprehensive educational goal. Biological, sociological, psychological and temporal formulations of maturity are discussed and compared. Am interdisciplinary model of maturity is evolved which…
Descriptors: Age, Biological Influences, Child Development, Developmental Psychology