Edward Zigler

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Edward Frank Zigler (born March 1, 1930 in Kansas City , Missouri , USA ; † February 7, 2019 in North Haven , Connecticut , USA) was an American developmental psychologist and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University . In addition to his academic research on child development, he was best known as one of the architects of the federal Head Start program .

Edward Zigler has improved the health, educational, social and emotional wellbeing of children through five decades of pioneering work in early childhood development .

Life

Early life and education

Zigler was born in Kansas City in 1930 to Frank Zigler and Gertrude Gleitman Zigler. His parents and two older sisters immigrated to the United States from Poland . Zigler served as a staff sergeant in the US Army during the Korean War . He attended the University of Missouri in Kansas City , where he received a bachelor's degree (BS) in 1954 . In 1955, Zigler enrolled at the University of Texas , where he received his PhD in developmental psychology in 1958.

Career

Much of Zigler's work has been applied research aimed at developing and improving services for disadvantaged children , including disadvantages from intellectual and developmental disabilities or poverty .

He taught at the University of Missouri at Columbia for a year before moving to the Yale School of Medicine in 1959 . In 1970, then-President of the United States named Richard Nixon Zigler as the first director of the Office of Child Development . There Zigler worked on starting the Head-Start program developed under the Johnson administration . President Johnson had declared a "war on poverty," which led Zigler and others to establish the child development program that has helped more than 32 million children since 1965. The preschool program was funded by the US government and implemented with more than 900,000 children, mostly from families whose incomes were below the poverty line . Zigler was convinced that the children would benefit from it in the long term.

In addition to many other public service contributions , he has chaired the Vietnamese Children's Resettlement Advisory Group for President Ford , chaired the Fifteenth Anniversary Head Start Committee , which President Carter asked to plan the future course of the Head Start program, and helped shape the family and Medical Leave Act .

In 1978, Zigler founded the Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University with funding from the Bush Foundation of Minnesota . The focus of the center is to use the results of empirical research on child development to support policy efforts to improve the lives of children. The center was renamed the Edward Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy in 2005 .

Personal life

Zigler was since 1955 with Bernice Gorelick (* May 22, 1932; † February 4, 2017) married and had a son. He died in North Haven on February 7, 2019 at the age of 88. He leaves behind his son Perrin Scott Ziegler ( Dean of the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts ), a daughter-in-law, two granddaughters and his younger sister.

Awards

In 2000, Zigler received the Heinz Award in the Public Policy category .

In 2003 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 2008 Zigler received the World of Children Humanitarian Award .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The Associated Press: Edward Zigler, 'Father of Head Start,' Dies in Connecticut . In: The New York Times . February 9, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 9, 2019]).
  2. ^ A b Edward Zigler, World of Children. Retrieved February 10, 2019 (American English).
  3. ^ Edward F. Zigler. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b c The New Haven Register: Edward Zigler. In: Legacy.com. February 10, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b c d e Edward Zigler, PhD> Edward Zigler Center in Child Development & Social Policy | Child Study Center | Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  6. ^ A b ZERO TO THREE 1255 23rd Street, NW Suite 350 Washington, Dc 20037638-1144899-4301: Edward Zigler. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Associated Press: Edward Zigler, 'Father of Head Start,' this in Connecticut. February 9, 2019, Retrieved February 10, 2019 (American English).
  8. ↑ David G. Myers: Psychology . 3. Edition. Springer-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-642-40782-6 , pp. 427 .
  9. ↑ a b Edward Zigler | Department of Psychology. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  10. ^ Hawley Lincoln Memorial Funeral Service: Bernice Zigler Obituary - New Haven Location. Retrieved February 9, 2019 (American English).
  11. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter Z. (PDF; 117 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zigler, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zigler, Edward Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American developmental psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Missouri , USA
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2019
Place of death North Haven , Connecticut , USA