The history of behavior analysis in Manitoba: A sparsely populated canadian province with an international influence on behavior analysis

Abstract

This article examines the convergence of factors that led to behavior analysis taking root, flourishing, and bearing fruit in a prairie province of Canada. In the latter half of the 1960s, Garry Martin and Joseph Pear began teaching behavior-analytic courses at the University of Manitoba. They and their students then initiated behavioral treatment and research programs at the Manitoba Developmental Center and St.Amant, the two main residential facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities and autism. Since that time, behavior analysis in Manitoba has flourished, and the knowledge and skills gained have been shared with other behavior analysts throughout the world through conferences, articles, and books. Behavior-analytic books by authors who live and work in Manitoba have been translated into eight languages. Moreover, University of Manitoba graduates in behavior analysis have helped to spread knowledge of behavior analysis throughout the world, and a number have achieved highly influential positions and widespread recognition within the discipline.

CAPSI: Caracterização de uma versão on-line do Sistema Personalizado de Ensino

“…Em suas aplicações iniciais com o PSI, relatou notar a grande quantidade de trabalho e de tempo necessário para gerenciar materiais e informações, que dificultava a viabilização das disciplinas nesse formato. Na primeira metade da década de 1980, em parceria com o professor Witold Kinsner, do departamento de engenharia da computação da University of Manitoba (UofM), desenvolveu o que foi nomeado como Computer-Aided Personalized System of Instruction (CAPSI) (Walters & Thomson, 2013;Pear & Martin, 2004;.…”