Fiction and the Educational Process
FAIN: FB-11441-72
University of Rochester (Rochester, NY 14627-0001)
Barry R. Westburg (Project Director: October 1972 to present)
To study major works of Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Lacan, and others, including various writings on developmental psycholinguistics. The focus is on child-development and the function of language and especially fictions (lies, stories, fairy tales, etc.) in the educational process as a whole.