Pioneers is a series of occasional posts celebrating people
who helped to make behavior analysis what it is.
Guest posts are always invited.
Contact Tom Critchfield (tscritc@ilstu.edu) with your idea.
PREVIOUS POSTS IN THIS SERIES:
PREMISE: Contemporary behavior analysis is big and diverse. We got here through the efforts of people with crazy competence, persistence, and creativity, and valuable lessons can be learned by examining how they made possible our discipline’s hard-won advances. Posts in the Pioneers series elaborate on their contributions, hopefully in a way that provides food for thought about how to approach our own lives and careers.
Because our discipline so big and diverse, no one is fluent with all of it. One particular goal of Pioneers posts is to highlight people who might be iconic in one specialty area but unknown in others. Elsewhere I’ve emphasized the benefits of knowing about a ton of different things. One of the best ways to understand an area outside of your own, and to find connections to your interests, is to see how that area came to be in the first place. Look to people like those described in these posts for insights.
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