Kurt lewin

1. Kurt Lewin (1890-1947)

2. Early Life Kurt Lewin was born in Prussia to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1909, he enrolled at the University of Frieberg to study medicine before transferring to the University of Munich to study biology. He eventually completed a doctoral degree at the University of Berlin. He volunteered for the German Army in 1914 and later injured in combat. These early experiences had a major impact on the development of his field theory and later study of group dynamics.

3. Career In 1921, Kurt Lewin began lecturing on philosophy and psychology at the Psychological Institute of the University of Berlin. Eventually, Lewin emigrated to the U.S. and took a teaching position at the University of Iowa, where he worked until 1944. While Lewin emphasized the importance of theory, he also believed that theories needed to have practical applications. Lewin also established the Group Dynamics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and National Training Laboratories.

4. “Father of Organization development” Lewin developed a theory that emphasized the importance of individual personalities, interpersonal conflict and situational variables. Lewin’s Field Theory proposed that behavior is the result of the individual and the environment.

5. Kurt Lewin's Force-Field Analysis Change Model http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/kurt-lewins-force-field-analysis-change- model.html

6. Contributions to Psychology Kurt Lewin contributed to psychology by expanding on theories and applying them to human behavior. He was one of the first psychologists to test on human behavior, influencing experimental psychology, social psychology, and personality psychology. Lewin is known as the father of modern social psychology because of his work that utilized scientific method and experimentation to look as social behavior.

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