Gil Noam

Gil G. Noam ( born 1950 ) is an American psychologist.

Life

Gil Noam attended the Odenwald School, to which he made in 1969 a high school. He studied psychology and pedagogy at the University of Berlin and worked as a consultant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in the project " socialization and development." Noam was co-author on several published in Germany writings on developmental psychology. Noam wrote 1983, a qualifying paper on the topic The borderline personality disorders in life span perspective: towards a clinical - developmental interpretation and received his PhD in 1984 with the dissertation self, morality and biography: studies in clinical - developmental psychology at the Graduate School of Education Harvard University. He was co-editor of the Harvard Educational Review for a time. Noam was associate by habilitation professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston and at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

Noam worked as director of the social-psychological prevention program RALLY ( Responsive Advocacy for Life and Learning in Youth ) in Boston and completed a longitudinal study of children from social challenges. Noam founded 1999 PAER (Program in Afterschool Education and Research) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

He is the editor of the journal New Directions in Youth Development: Theory, Practice and Research.

Noam lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Writings (selection )

• After-school worlds: creating a new social space for development and learning. San Francisco: Jossey -Bass 2004
• Gil G Noam; Beth M Miller: Youth development and after- school time: a tale of many cities. San Francisco: Jossey -Bass, 2002
• Russell John Skiba; Gil G Noam: Zero tolerance: can suspension and expulsion keep schools safe? San Francisco: Jossey -Bass, 2001
• Life History and Development. A Psychological Perspective, in: Gerold Becker, Jürgen Zimmer (eds.): Lust and load the Enlightenment. A book on his 80th birthday by Hellmut Becker, Beltz, Weinheim 1993, ISBN 3-407-83130-7
• Lawrence Kohlberg: The psychology of moral development. Edited by Wolfgang Althof under al. Gil Noam and Fritz Oser. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1995