Associate Editor FQS Conferences

Robert B. Faux

Discipline: Psychology

Research Interests:

• Learning, Cognition, & Meaning Making:

• Exploring the processes whereby students attempt to understand and make meaning of academic material through writing

• With my colleague Dr. R. Engle, I am assessing the effectiveness of using case studies as a method to teach theories of learning and development to graduate students who are enrolled in a teacher education program

• Psychology and the Arts:

• Investigating how psychological concepts are embodied in theatrical and filmic representations of human life and how that embodiment shapes the process of individuals' understanding of themselves and of psychology

• Exploring the processes whereby novice jazz musicians become expert jazz musicians

• History & Philosophy of Psychology/Social Science:

• Examining quantitative and qualitative research paradigms adopted by the social sciences, and how research methodologies are conceptualized in the social sciences in the West and in the East (with Dr. T.C. Hsu)

• Exploring the biographies of concepts such as learning, intelligence, and intuition

• Assessing the role played by the neobehaviorism of Edward C. Tolman in the development of cognitive psychology, particularly in the work of Jerome Bruner and Herbert Simon

• Exploring the emergence of psychological thought in 18th century poetry and literature

• Examining the history of research methodology in the social sciences and how the choice of methodology may have shaped researchers' conceptualizations of what they were investigating

Published in FQS:

• César A. Cisneros Puebla, Daniel Domínguez Figaredo, Robert Faux, Carlos Kölbl & Martin Packer (Eds.) (2006). Qualitative Research in Ibero America. FQS 7(4)

• César A. Cisneros Puebla, Daniel Domínguez Figaredo, Robert Faux, Carlos Kölbl & Martin Packer (2006). Editorial: About Qualitative Research Epistemologies and Peripheries. FQS 7(4)

• Katja Mruck, César A. Cisneros Puebla & Robert Faux (2005). Editorial: About Qualitative Research Centers and Peripheries. FQS 6(3)

• Robert Faux (2005). Review Essay: To Reveal Thy Heart Perchance to Reveal the World. FQS 6(2)

• César A. Cisneros Puebla, Robert Faux & Günter Mey (2004). Qualitative Researchers—Stories Told, Storied Shared: The Storied Nature of Qualitative Research. An Introduction to the Special Issue: FQS Interviews I. FQS 5(3)

• Robert Faux (2004). The Coming of Age of a Qualitative Researcher: The Impact of Qualitative Research in Education Past, Present, and Future. Judith Preissle in Conversation With Robert Faux. FQS 5(3)

• Günter Mey, César A. Cisneros Puebla & Robert Faux (Eds.) (2004). Special Issue: FQS Interviews I. FQS 5(3)

• Robert Faux (2003). Reflections: Doing Biographical Research. FQS 4(3)

• Günter Mey, Marion Niehoff & Robert Faux (2003). Editorial Note FQS Conferences. FQS 4(1)

• Robert Faux (2002). Review Essay: Introducing Students to the Tools of Psychological Research. FQS 3(4)

• Robert Faux (2000). A Description of the Uses of Content Analyses and Interviews in Educational/Psychological Research. FQS 1(1)

Contact:

Robert B. Faux, PhD

5C01 Posvar Hall
Department of Psychology in Education
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
USA

Phone: 412.624.7230
Fax: 412.624.7231
E-mail: rfaux@pitt.edu

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