Fragments of a Lesson Plan

An informal sometimes flip scathingly provocative journal <I>Fragments of a Lesson Plan</I> has emerged from Robert Belenky's personal and professional journey in search of ways to be useful to others as a psychologist-educator. His style is indicative of the art--exploratory questioning ambivalent at times.</P><P>Belenky has pulled together tangential pieces and parts of his work as a psychologist educator and researcher. He presents the good with the bad in a collection from his personal journal from reports from tape-recorded interviews of the people he has dealt with--children mothers criminals teachers comp counselors juvenile delinquents and colleagues.</P><P>With frankness and honesty he lets the reader in on the open disputes the racial friction the ego trips and the muddling-through which occur in all experimental projects--but never get reported. He presents real programs and real people from a close perspective.</P><P>The result is a welcome antidote to the self-laudatory jargon-filled memoranda and papers written for the heads of foundations and professional journals. His ruminations make indispensable reading for the would-be community mental health architect.</P>