RG10 Subgroup 8: Edna K. Shapiro Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection documents Edna Shapiro’s role as a member of the Research Division and faculty member at Bank Street College for more than thirty years. Additional records of her work in the Research Division are also included. Record genres include administrative records, correspondence, instructional and educational works, notes, publications, reports, and school records.
Dates
- Creation: 1949 - 2002
Creator
- Shapiro, Edna K., 1925-2005 (Research team head, Person)
Biographical note
Edna Kaufmann Shapiro received her BA from Mt. Holyoke College in 1946. After completing her degree she worked as a Research Assistant in the Psychosocial Research Unit at Mt. Holyoke. She left in 1947 to attend Yale University where she received an MA in psychology in 1948 and a PhD in 1951. While at Yale she worked as a Research Assistant in the Institute of Human Relations and an Instructor in Psychology at Bard College.
Shapiro’s interest in the interplay of developmental psychology and education drew her to the Research Division of Bank Street College. She worked as a graduate faculty member and Research Psychologist until 1990 and served as the Research Division’s Associate Dean from 1984 to 1987. She served as Distinguished Research Psychologist Emeritus until her death in 2005.
Extent
1.1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Edna K. Shapiro Papers were created over the course of Shapiro’s career with the Research Division of Bank Street in the latter half of the twentieth century. The materials span her research study endeavors and participation on the faculty. Her work was collected in observational notes, reports, correspondence, publications, administrative files, and several other formats.
Arrangement
The collection consists of five series. See the scope and contents note of each series for further information.
Physical Location
Bank Street College Archives, New York, NY
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Edna K. Shapiro Papers were donated to the Archives by Nancy Nager in 2006.
Subject
- Bernard, Viola W. (Viola Wertheim), 1907-1998 (Person)
- Biber, Barbara, 1903-1993 (Person)
- Gordon, Edith Lisolette Oppenheimer (Person)
- Winsor, Charlotte B. (Person)
- Shapiro, Edna K., 1925-2005 (Research team head, Person)
Geographic
Topical
- Child development -- Case studies
- Child development -- Research -- United States
- Education -- Research -- Evaluation
- Educators
- Elementary schools -- New York (State)
- Publications
- Report writing
- Schools -- Records and correspondence
- Teachers -- Training of -- New York (State)
- Teachers colleges
- Women educators -- United States
- Title
- Guide to Sub-group 8 - Edna K. Shapiro Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Kate Kearns and Lindsey Wyckoff, with Brett Dion
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2022: Added to the ArchivesSpace archives management system by Brett Dion, Bank Street College Archivist.
Repository Details
Part of the Bank Street College Archives Repository
Bank Street College Library
610 West 112th Street
New York NY 10520
212-875-4455
libraryarchives@bankstreet.edu