Still Crazy about Teaching after All These Years: An Interview with Dick Gorman

Abstract

Richard Gorman received his BA in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in educational psychology from Fordham University. Over the years, he has taught at several colleges and universities—both in the east and west—and is currently a member of the Psychology Department at Central New Mexico Community College. He has taught courses in developmental, educational, and cognitive psychology, but is currently concentrating on the introductory psychology course. His publications include a text in the psychology of classroom learning, an introduction to Piaget's theory for teachers, and, more recently, an introductory psychology text. He has given presentations and workshops on discovery learning to various audiences including the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP).

Brian L. Burke is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Fort Lewis College, a public liberal arts college in Durango, Colorado. He is a licensed clinical psychologist whose principal academic interests include motivational interviewing and college teaching. He regularly attends teaching conferences, twice winning the Doug Bernstein Award for innovative teaching ideas (NITOP 2004, 2005). He also won the New Faculty Teaching Award at Fort Lewis College in 2005. He teaches a wide variety of courses, including introductory psychology, personality, abnormal, counseling, research methods, history of psychology (via a European trip), and forensic psychology. Brian hails originally from Montreal, Canada, and received his PhD from the University of Arizona in 2003.