Harold C. Lyon

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Harold Clifford Lyon Jr. (born April 26, 1935 - † November 9, 2019 ) was an American scientist, didactician, psychologist and author who also taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich as a visiting professor since 1994 . His research has demonstrated, among other things, that interactive, multimedia-based forms of training have advantages for medical students over traditional approaches based on textbook and frontal teaching.

Career

Lyon had degrees from the US Military Academy at West Point (BS), George Washington University ( MA ) and the University of Massachusetts (EdD). After serving as a paratrooper in the US Army in the 101st Airborne Division, he worked as an assistant to the commanding general of the Second Infantry Division , which was trained for special tasks at the time. He was posted to Oxford , Mississippi, in 1962 to enforce federal judicial rulings for the admission of the University of Mississippi to the University of Mississippi for James Meredith, a student of color , against the position of Governor Ross Barnett . The following year he helped enforce admissions for colored people against Governor George Wallace at the University of Alabama.

Lyon later worked for 8 years as the person responsible for the promotion of gifted children in the US Department of Education and was involved as a project officer in the development of the TV series Sesame Street . At Ohio University he was an advisor to the White House Task Force on the Gifted and Talented and held positions at Georgetown University as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Psychology, at Antioch College as Abraham Maslow Professor, at Dartmouth Medical School as a visiting professor at Notre Dame College as Professor of Health Sciences and at the University of Massachusetts as Horace Mann - Lecturer . He was a Fulbright Professor, NIH Fogarty Senior International Fellow and Apple Fellow in Germany. He wrote a white paper for US President Jimmy Carter that led to the establishment of the US Department of Education .

background

Lyon is the author of 7 books and more than 100 articles, covering a range of subjects as diverse as military strategy, management, educational research, medicine , psychology , multimedia , hunting and fishing.

He represented a person-centered teaching and leadership method in government and was in contact with Carl R. Rogers and other Human Potential Movement supporters such as Mosche Feldenkrais , Rollo May , Clark Mouskasas, Virginia Satir , George Leonard , Michael Murphy, David Aspy, and Chris Argyris, pioneers in client-centered education and psychology. In 2017 Lyon received the Mensa Foundation Intellectual Benefits to Society Award.

On November 9, 2019, Lyon was killed in a boating accident on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire .

selected Writings

  • Learning to Feel - Feeling to Learn . Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1971.
  • It's Me & I'm Here! New York: Delacorte, 1974.
  • Tenderness Is Strength New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
  • Angling in the Smile of the Great Spirit Laconia, NH, 2007. (Winner of the New England Outdoor Writers Association, "Best Book of the Year Award.")
  • On Becoming an Effective Teacher - Person-centered Teaching, Psychology, Philosophy, and Dialogues with Carl R. Rogers and Harold Lyon. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN 978-0-415-816984 . (Co-authored with Carl R Rogers and Reinhard Tausch).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harold Lyon. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  2. ^ Profiles - Harold C. Lyon, Jr - The Authors Guild. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Lyon HC Jr et al: An Interactive Computer-assisted Program to Teach Clinical Problem Solving in Diagnosing Anemia and Coronary Artery Disease. 67 (12), Academic Medicine, Dec 1992, 821-828
  4. ↑ Lyon HC Jr. et al: Correlation Between Student Use of Computer-based Instruction and High Exam Scores in Pathology, Journal of Medical Education Technologies, Vol. 6, No. 4, March 1998, pp. 20-26
  5. ↑ Clark, RE: (1992) Dangers in the Evaluation of Instructional Media academic medicine Vol. 67, No 12, December. Pp. 819-120. (Click on the pdf to download): http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/1992/12000/Dangers_in_the_evaluation_of_instructional_media.4.aspx
  6. ↑ Rogers, CR, Lyon, HC, and Tausch, R (2013) On Becoming an Effective Teacher - Person-centered Dialogues with Carl R. Rogers and Harold Lyon. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-81698-4 pp. 87-94.
  7. ↑ a b Spring Catalog 2013 Archived from the original on May 9, 2013. In: Independent Publishers of New England (Ed.): Spring Catalog 2013 . April 11, 2013, p. 8. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  8. ↑ http://www.101st-airborne-ranger.com/recondo-ft-campbell/72-history-of-the-recondo-ft-campbell
  9. ^ Lyon, HC. (1974) It's Me & I'm Here! New York: Delacorte
  10. ↑ Lyon, HC, Jr: "The federal perspective on the Gifted and Talented." Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1981. 4 (1): pp 3-7
  11. ↑ Lyon, HC, Jr: “Our most neglected natural resource.” Today's Education February-March 1981. pp15-20
  12. ^ Marv Gold: A Chat with Harold C. Lyon . In: G / C / T . 3, No. 4, September 1, 1980, pp. 3-9. doi : 10.1177 / 107621758000300402 .
  13. ^ Lyon, HC. Tenderness Is Strength. New York: Harper & Row, 1977
  14. ↑ Harold Lyon, 2017 Intellectual Benefits to Society Award winner. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Police identify 2 men killed in Lake Winnipesaukee boating accident | Boston.com . Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  16. ^ Lyon Jr., Harold C. - New Hampshire Obituaries. Retrieved November 26, 2019 (American English).
  17. ↑ http : //www.prweb.com/releases/2012/6/prweb9648086.htm
personal data
SURNAME Lyon, Harold C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lyon, Harold Clifford junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scientist, educationalist, psychologist, and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1935
DATE OF DEATH 9th November 2019