Julie Vargas
{{short description|American educator}}
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| name = Julie S. Vargas
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| birth_name = Julie Skinner
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1938}}
| birth_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
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| occupation = Academic
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| spouse = Ernest A. Vargas
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| employer = B. F. Skinner Foundation
| title = President
| education = Radcliffe College (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
University of Pittsburgh (PhD)
| notable_works = West Virginia University
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Julie Skinner Vargas (born 1938){{cite journal| last =Arntzen| first =Erik| title =Interview With Julie S. Vargas| journal =European Journal of Behavior Analysis| date =2010| volume =11| issue =2| pages =199–204| doi =10.1080/15021149.2010.11434343| s2cid =185786929| url =http://www.ejoba.org/PDF/2010_2/Arntzen_2010.pdf| access-date =3 June 2013| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140201165957/http://www.ejoba.org/PDF/2010_2/Arntzen_2010.pdf| archive-date =1 February 2014}} is an American educator who has written extensively on the science of behavior.{{cite news | last =Freedman | first =David H. | title =The Perfected Self | newspaper =The Atlantic| date =June 2012 | url =https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/the-perfected-self/308970/ | access-date =3 June 2013 }}
Vargas is the daughter of B.F. Skinner and is the president of the B. F. Skinner Foundation, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is an officer of The International Society for Behaviorology.{{cite web | title =Routledge Education Author of the Month May 2011 – Julie S. Vargas | url =http://www.routledge.com/education/articles/routledge_education_author_of_the_month_may_2011_julie_s._vargas/ | access-date =3 June 2013 | archive-date =2 February 2014 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140202145929/http://www.routledge.com/education/articles/routledge_education_author_of_the_month_may_2011_julie_s._vargas/ | url-status =dead }}
Biography
Vargas received a bachelor's degree in music from Radcliffe College, a master's degree in music education from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in educational research from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a faculty member at West Virginia University, where she and her husband, Ernest A. Vargas, taught for more than 30 years in the College of Human Resources and Education.
Behaviorology: Skinner's new science
Vargas has written that "What B. F. Skinner began is not an 'approach', 'view', 'discipline', 'field', or 'theory'. It was, and is, a science, differing from psychology in its dependent variables, its measurement system, its procedures, and its analytic framework".Julie S. Vargas, (2004). [http://www.ejoba.org/PDF/2004_2/Vargas_2004.pdf "Contingencies over B. F. Skinner’s Discovery of Contingencies"]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 5, pp. 137-142. She and a number of her colleagues have given Skinner's science the name "behaviorology", which may be defined as the natural science of the behavior of organisms.
Bibliography
- Writing Worthwhile Behavioral Objectives, 1973, Harper & Row
- Behavioral Psychology for Teachers, 1977, Harper & Row
- {{cite book |author=Bernice Stewart, Julie S. Vargas |title=Teaching Behavior to Infants and Toddlers: A Manual for Caregivers and Parents |year=1990 |publisher=C.C. Thomas |isbn=0-398-05638-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/teachingbehavior00stew }}
- {{cite book |last=Vargas |first=Julie S. |title=Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching |publisher=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |isbn=978-0-415-52680-7|year=2013 }}
- {{cite book |last=Vargas |first=Julie Skinner |title= Item Selection Techniques for Norm-referenced and Criterion-referenced Tests |year=1969 |publisher= University of Pittsburgh}}
Her more recent publications have been articles, including two 2005 entries on B. F. Skinner in volumes I and III of The Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching.An overview and a preview can be found at {{cite book|title=Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching|isbn=978-0415526807 |last1=Vargas |first1=Julie S. |year=2013 |publisher=Routledge }} with Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2012.
References
External links
- [http://www.bfskinner.org/ B. F. Skinner Foundation]
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Category:American non-fiction writers
Category:Radcliffe College alumni
Category:Teachers College, Columbia University alumni
Category:University of Pittsburgh alumni