Roland G Tharp
Biographic Data
| ID | 641261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland G Tharp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland G |
| FAMILY NAME | Tharp |
| SIGNATURE | THARP R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and Cultural Community Psychology
Greater commonality for Cultural-Community Psychology (CC) and cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) is advocated. The potential for greater commonality is exemplified by a series of examples of the many researchers who now use concepts from both CC and CHAT, including our own career work in culture studies, community development, delinquency, and education. A centering whorl of science is observable in the density of intersections across fi…
Integrating Cultural Community Psychology
Cultural and community psychology share a common emphasis on context, yet their leading journals rarely cite each other's articles. Greater integration of the concepts of culture and community within and across their disciplines would enrich and facilitate the viability of cultural community psychology. The contextual theory of activity settings is proposed as one means to integrate the concepts of culture and community in cultural community psyc…
Self-Directed Behavior
Orthodoxy, cultural compatibility, and universals in education
Are western psychological and educational theory and practice truly applicable to a range of diverse settings around the world? We demonstrate that there is a globally dominant pedagogical orthodoxy—not exclusively western—for which there is little supportive theory nor evidence of efficacy. There is an alternative—Standards for Effective Pedagogy—that aspires directly and by design toward universalism. We describe this pedagogical system's nearl…
A Native American community's involvement and empowerment to guide their children's development in the school setting
This study provides an empirical description of the dimensions of community values, beliefs, and opinions through a survey conducted in the Pueblo Indian community of Zuni in New Mexico. The sample was composed of 200 randomly chosen community members ranging from 21 to 103 years old. A principal component factor analysis was conducted, as well as a multivariate analysis of variance, to explore gender, age, education, language, and socioeconomic …
Activity settings as the unit of analysis
Theory, methods, and action develop within context, one of which is the intellectual climate of an era. Community psychology is directly and indirectly interactive with many intellectual currents, such as postmodernism, semiotics, hermeneutics, and dialogism. These ideas are discussed as they impact on community psychology, with an emphasis on the reemergence of meaning as a central condition of psychology and community. Meaning is of key importa…
Teaching, Relating, and Learning
Making History
Psychocultural variables and constants
Psychocultural variables and constants
The process of training in processes
This paper presents a three-dimensional model for guiding the process of training community psychologists. The model, which emerged from a yearlong practicum, delineates four activities to be mastered, three levels of intimacy with these activities, and three levels of support provided to trainees. The model is presented first in abstract terms and then in terms of the experiential description of practicum activities. The paper concludes with a c…
Speaking, Relating, and Learning
Explaining School Failure, Producing School Success
Which explanation of the school performance of minority children is most useful and appropriate depends on why one is asking the question. The authors discuss two efforts to produce school success in place of school failure, based on the assumption that specific cultural differences underlie school failure and that producing particular cultural compatibilities in the classroom was a key to school success. MINORITY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, NAVAJO, NATI…
Inquiry process in program development
This article describes a model for research and development (R&D) programs for social action. R&D implies several features: (a) a complex social problem; (b) for which the solution is unknown; the development or invention of a solution which requires (c) some time; in which (d) some errors and corrections are anticipated; and in which (e) the process and epistemology of science governs the outcome. We propose a model of R&D drawn by analogy from …
The Effective Instruction of Comprehension
A READING PROGRAM for young children, which features systematic instruction in comprehension, has been developed for Polynesian Hawaiian children who have a potentially high risk for educational failure. The program (KEEP) was assessed in terms of three experiments: (1) a successive-cohorts analysis demonstrated the KEEP program superior to a phonics-based program; (2) an experimental vs. control design demonstrated superiority of the KEEP-labora…
Concordance Between Ethnographer and Folk Perspectives
This paper compares field observers' perceptions of role performance with culture members' reports of what their roles are. Children's and field observers' judgments concerning child caretaking in Honolulu, Hawaii, were compared. The results show (1) statistically significant concordance between the two sets of reports; (2) fairly low (50%) agreement on who cares for the child; and (3) fairly high (80%) agreement on children's reports of being a …
The Interpretation of Elicited Sentence Imitation in a Standardized Context
Elicited imitation has been used to study language acquisition and ability, language disorders, and nonstandard dialects While it was initially assumed that elicited imitation reflected knowledge of grammar, later work suggests considerable variability in performance, e.g., children do not always imitate sentences they are known to have spontaneously produced at another time. This paper reviews research on elicited sentence imitation, distinguish…
The Relationship of Sibling Caretaking and Attentiveness to a Peer Tutor
Ethnographic measures of sibling caretaking were correlated with attentiveness to a peer tutor. Boys from families who assigned childcare tasks to male siblings were more likely to be attentive in a dyadic peer-tutoring session. General classroom attentiveness was also highly correlated with attentiveness to a peer tutor and to male sibcare. Girl tutee attentiveness and female sibcare were not correlated. Families who assign major childcare tasks…
Order of Difficulty of Standard English Grammatical Features among Cultural Minority Groups in the United States1
A measure of standard English (SE) performance was administered to children from ten culture/language groups in the Western United States. The measure consisted of 29 grammatical features of SE embedded in sentences selected from samples of child speech recorded in natural settings; reliability and validity data for the measure (an elicited imitation task) are reported. Rank order correlations were used to compare the order of difficulty of the 2…
The Effects of Elaboration and Rehearsal on Long-Term Retention of Shape Names by Kindergarteners
Two promising instructional paradigms are elaboration and overt rehearsal. In a study with both theoretical and curriculum-development implications, these two instructional paradigms were compared for facilitation of kindergarteners’ retention of shape names. Elaboration refers to the association of two unconnected stimuli (a shape name and a common object) in a meaningful context (a familiar story). Induced overt rehearsal involves repetition of…
The community mental health center and the schools
Changes in Marriage Roles Accompanying the Acculturation of the Mexican-American Wife
Roland G. Tharp, Arnold Meadow, Susan G. Lennhoff, Donna Satterfield, Changes in Marriage Roles Accompanying the Acculturation of the Mexican-American Wife, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Aug., 1968), pp. 404-412
Marriage roles, child development and family treatment
Marriage roles may be understood in terms of five functions: solidarity, sexuality, external relations, internal instrumentality and division of responsibility. Disturbed marriage roles may result in disturbed parent-child relations within the same function. Many cases of child disorder, then, may be corrected by treating the role function of the parents' marriage
Reply to Levinger's note
On Kennedy, Tippitt, Oswald, and Rubenstein
Explaining School Failure, Producing School Success
Which explanation of the school performance of minority children is most useful and appropriate depends on why one is asking the question. The authors discuss two efforts to produce school success in place of school failure, based on the assumption that specific cultural differences underlie school failure and that producing particular cultural compatibilities in the classroom was a key to school success. MINORITY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, NAVAJO, NATI…
Activity settings as the unit of analysis
Theory, methods, and action develop within context, one of which is the intellectual climate of an era. Community psychology is directly and indirectly interactive with many intellectual currents, such as postmodernism, semiotics, hermeneutics, and dialogism. These ideas are discussed as they impact on community psychology, with an emphasis on the reemergence of meaning as a central condition of psychology and community. Meaning is of key importa…
Changes in Marriage Roles Accompanying the Acculturation of the Mexican-American Wife
Roland G. Tharp, Arnold Meadow, Susan G. Lennhoff, Donna Satterfield, Changes in Marriage Roles Accompanying the Acculturation of the Mexican-American Wife, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Aug., 1968), pp. 404-412
The Effective Instruction of Comprehension
A READING PROGRAM for young children, which features systematic instruction in comprehension, has been developed for Polynesian Hawaiian children who have a potentially high risk for educational failure. The program (KEEP) was assessed in terms of three experiments: (1) a successive-cohorts analysis demonstrated the KEEP program superior to a phonics-based program; (2) an experimental vs. control design demonstrated superiority of the KEEP-labora…
Psychological patterning in marriage
Integrating Cultural Community Psychology
Cultural and community psychology share a common emphasis on context, yet their leading journals rarely cite each other's articles. Greater integration of the concepts of culture and community within and across their disciplines would enrich and facilitate the viability of cultural community psychology. The contextual theory of activity settings is proposed as one means to integrate the concepts of culture and community in cultural community psyc…
Highland Maya Psychotherapy
Orthodoxy, cultural compatibility, and universals in education
Are western psychological and educational theory and practice truly applicable to a range of diverse settings around the world? We demonstrate that there is a globally dominant pedagogical orthodoxy—not exclusively western—for which there is little supportive theory nor evidence of efficacy. There is an alternative—Standards for Effective Pedagogy—that aspires directly and by design toward universalism. We describe this pedagogical system's nearl…
Concordance Between Ethnographer and Folk Perspectives
This paper compares field observers' perceptions of role performance with culture members' reports of what their roles are. Children's and field observers' judgments concerning child caretaking in Honolulu, Hawaii, were compared. The results show (1) statistically significant concordance between the two sets of reports; (2) fairly low (50%) agreement on who cares for the child; and (3) fairly high (80%) agreement on children's reports of being a …
The Interpretation of Elicited Sentence Imitation in a Standardized Context
Elicited imitation has been used to study language acquisition and ability, language disorders, and nonstandard dialects While it was initially assumed that elicited imitation reflected knowledge of grammar, later work suggests considerable variability in performance, e.g., children do not always imitate sentences they are known to have spontaneously produced at another time. This paper reviews research on elicited sentence imitation, distinguish…
The Relationship of Sibling Caretaking and Attentiveness to a Peer Tutor
Ethnographic measures of sibling caretaking were correlated with attentiveness to a peer tutor. Boys from families who assigned childcare tasks to male siblings were more likely to be attentive in a dyadic peer-tutoring session. General classroom attentiveness was also highly correlated with attentiveness to a peer tutor and to male sibcare. Girl tutee attentiveness and female sibcare were not correlated. Families who assign major childcare tasks…
The community mental health center and the schools
Order of Difficulty of Standard English Grammatical Features among Cultural Minority Groups in the United States1
A measure of standard English (SE) performance was administered to children from ten culture/language groups in the Western United States. The measure consisted of 29 grammatical features of SE embedded in sentences selected from samples of child speech recorded in natural settings; reliability and validity data for the measure (an elicited imitation task) are reported. Rank order correlations were used to compare the order of difficulty of the 2…
Dimensions of Marriage Roles
M ARRIAGE RESEARCH has been handicapped by the lack of an empirical description of marriage roles. Consequently, researchers have trudged through a thicket of unorganized variables, or swung on ropes of unverified assumptions. The purpose of this study was to provide a description of marriage-roles, based on empirical methods and data, in terms of dimensions. Such a dimensional description would suggest something of the structure of marriage role…
Psychological patterning in marriage
Reply to Levinger's note
On Kennedy, Tippitt, Oswald, and Rubenstein
Highland Maya Psychotherapy
Marriage roles, child development and family treatment
Marriage roles may be understood in terms of five functions: solidarity, sexuality, external relations, internal instrumentality and division of responsibility. Disturbed marriage roles may result in disturbed parent-child relations within the same function. Many cases of child disorder, then, may be corrected by treating the role function of the parents' marriage
Changes in Marriage Roles Accompanying the Acculturation of the Mexican-American Wife
Roland G. Tharp, Arnold Meadow, Susan G. Lennhoff, Donna Satterfield, Changes in Marriage Roles Accompanying the Acculturation of the Mexican-American Wife, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Aug., 1968), pp. 404-412
The community mental health center and the schools
The Effects of Elaboration and Rehearsal on Long-Term Retention of Shape Names by Kindergarteners
Two promising instructional paradigms are elaboration and overt rehearsal. In a study with both theoretical and curriculum-development implications, these two instructional paradigms were compared for facilitation of kindergarteners’ retention of shape names. Elaboration refers to the association of two unconnected stimuli (a shape name and a common object) in a meaningful context (a familiar story). Induced overt rehearsal involves repetition of…
The Relationship of Sibling Caretaking and Attentiveness to a Peer Tutor
Ethnographic measures of sibling caretaking were correlated with attentiveness to a peer tutor. Boys from families who assigned childcare tasks to male siblings were more likely to be attentive in a dyadic peer-tutoring session. General classroom attentiveness was also highly correlated with attentiveness to a peer tutor and to male sibcare. Girl tutee attentiveness and female sibcare were not correlated. Families who assign major childcare tasks…
Order of Difficulty of Standard English Grammatical Features among Cultural Minority Groups in the United States1
A measure of standard English (SE) performance was administered to children from ten culture/language groups in the Western United States. The measure consisted of 29 grammatical features of SE embedded in sentences selected from samples of child speech recorded in natural settings; reliability and validity data for the measure (an elicited imitation task) are reported. Rank order correlations were used to compare the order of difficulty of the 2…
The Interpretation of Elicited Sentence Imitation in a Standardized Context
Elicited imitation has been used to study language acquisition and ability, language disorders, and nonstandard dialects While it was initially assumed that elicited imitation reflected knowledge of grammar, later work suggests considerable variability in performance, e.g., children do not always imitate sentences they are known to have spontaneously produced at another time. This paper reviews research on elicited sentence imitation, distinguish…
Inquiry process in program development
This article describes a model for research and development (R&D) programs for social action. R&D implies several features: (a) a complex social problem; (b) for which the solution is unknown; the development or invention of a solution which requires (c) some time; in which (d) some errors and corrections are anticipated; and in which (e) the process and epistemology of science governs the outcome. We propose a model of R&D drawn by analogy from …
The Effective Instruction of Comprehension
A READING PROGRAM for young children, which features systematic instruction in comprehension, has been developed for Polynesian Hawaiian children who have a potentially high risk for educational failure. The program (KEEP) was assessed in terms of three experiments: (1) a successive-cohorts analysis demonstrated the KEEP program superior to a phonics-based program; (2) an experimental vs. control design demonstrated superiority of the KEEP-labora…
Concordance Between Ethnographer and Folk Perspectives
This paper compares field observers' perceptions of role performance with culture members' reports of what their roles are. Children's and field observers' judgments concerning child caretaking in Honolulu, Hawaii, were compared. The results show (1) statistically significant concordance between the two sets of reports; (2) fairly low (50%) agreement on who cares for the child; and (3) fairly high (80%) agreement on children's reports of being a …
The process of training in processes
This paper presents a three-dimensional model for guiding the process of training community psychologists. The model, which emerged from a yearlong practicum, delineates four activities to be mastered, three levels of intimacy with these activities, and three levels of support provided to trainees. The model is presented first in abstract terms and then in terms of the experiential description of practicum activities. The paper concludes with a c…
Speaking, Relating, and Learning
Explaining School Failure, Producing School Success
Which explanation of the school performance of minority children is most useful and appropriate depends on why one is asking the question. The authors discuss two efforts to produce school success in place of school failure, based on the assumption that specific cultural differences underlie school failure and that producing particular cultural compatibilities in the classroom was a key to school success. MINORITY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, NAVAJO, NATI…
Psychocultural variables and constants
Psychocultural variables and constants
Making History
Teaching, Relating, and Learning
Activity settings as the unit of analysis
Theory, methods, and action develop within context, one of which is the intellectual climate of an era. Community psychology is directly and indirectly interactive with many intellectual currents, such as postmodernism, semiotics, hermeneutics, and dialogism. These ideas are discussed as they impact on community psychology, with an emphasis on the reemergence of meaning as a central condition of psychology and community. Meaning is of key importa…
A Native American community's involvement and empowerment to guide their children's development in the school setting
This study provides an empirical description of the dimensions of community values, beliefs, and opinions through a survey conducted in the Pueblo Indian community of Zuni in New Mexico. The sample was composed of 200 randomly chosen community members ranging from 21 to 103 years old. A principal component factor analysis was conducted, as well as a multivariate analysis of variance, to explore gender, age, education, language, and socioeconomic …
Orthodoxy, cultural compatibility, and universals in education
Are western psychological and educational theory and practice truly applicable to a range of diverse settings around the world? We demonstrate that there is a globally dominant pedagogical orthodoxy—not exclusively western—for which there is little supportive theory nor evidence of efficacy. There is an alternative—Standards for Effective Pedagogy—that aspires directly and by design toward universalism. We describe this pedagogical system's nearl…
Psychology (24 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Community Health and Development (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)