Bardon, Jack I. (1925–1993)

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Jack I. Bardon earned his BA in psychology at Cleveland College of Western Reserve University in 1949, with a minor in education. He continued his professional education at the University of Pennsylvania, earning the MA in psychology in 1951 and a PhD in clinical psychology in 1956. From 1952 until 1958, Bardon was a school psychologist in the Princeton, New Jersey schools and served as coordinator of special education services from 1958 to 1960. In 1960 he became director of the Rutgers University doctoral program in school psychology with the academic rank of associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1963 and became head of the department in 1968. During his tenure at Rutgers, Bardon began to have an impact nationally on the delivery of school psychological services to handicapped children. His program in school psychology at Rutgers was one of the early pioneering programs in the field and, along with the University of Texas program, had a major influence on the development of doctoral schools of psychology. The Rutgers program reflected Bardon's own prominent, driving interest: to determine how the body of knowledge and the methods and techniques of psychology can be applied to the improvement of schooling generally, and to meeting the special needs of exceptional children in schools specifically. Bardon was instrumental in developing the primary role definitions of school psychologists (Bardon, 1982; Bardon & Bennett, 1974). Bardon was involved in work to help differentiate school psychology from other disciplines (Bardon, 1983). His work has benefited special education and regular education by improving the ability of school psychologists to provide services to children at all levels. In Bardon's most recent work 1992, he discussed the rationale for successes and failures in educational undertakings and how they relate to the field of school psychology. Bardon left Rutgers in 1976 to accept a professorship at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he became an Excellence Foundation Professor in 1983. Bardon was editor of the Journal of School Psychology from 1968 to 1971, was president of the Division of School Psychology of the American Psychological Association in 1969, and served on the board of directors of the American Orthopsychiatric Association from 1981 to 1984. Jack Bardon retired from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1991, and died in November, 1993. He worked hard throughout his career to apply psychological theory, principles, and practice to the field of education, and is credited by his colleagues with having made a substantial impact in the definition of school psychology, professional organizational issues, and in the debate over levels of training in school psychology.

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