Kurt Lewin: 70 Years on

Kurt Lewin on Reeducation : Foundations for Action Research

Kurt Lewin and complexity theories: back to the future?

Many writers acknowledge the significance of Kurt Lewin's contribution to organizational change. However, over the last 20 years, where the focus has been on rapid, transformational change, Lewin's work has increasingly become seen as outmoded and irrelevant to the needs of modem organizations. It might be expected that this tendency would increase as academics and practitioners draw on the wor...

Kurt Lewin, psychological constructs and sources of brain cognitive activity

Understanding mind-brain-environment relations is one of the key topics in psychology. Kurt Lewin, inspired by theoretical physics, tried to establish topological and vector psychology analyzing patterns of interaction between the individual and her/his environment. The time is ripe to reformulate his ambitious goals, searching for ways to interpret objectively measured brain processes in terms...

Kurt Lewin, Norbert Bischof - und die Folgen : Zum Verhältnis von Allgemeinem und Konkretem in der Psychologie

Im Februar 1930 hat Kurt Lewin vor der Gesellschaft fiir empirische Philosophie in Berlin einen richtungsweisenden Vortrag gehalten, der später unter dem Titel "Der Übergang von der aristotelischen zur galileisehen Denkweise in Biologie und Psychologie" in Band I der Zeitschrift Erkenntnis erschienen ist (Lewin, 1931). Gegenstand dieses Vortrages war eine "Gegenüberstellung der gegenwärtigen (d...

On a Problem of Lewin

A digraph G is called primitive if for some positive integer k, there is a walk of length exactly k from each vertex u to each vertex v (possibly u again). If G is primitive, the smallest such k is called the exponent of G, denoted by exp(G). In 1971, M. Lewin introduced the parameter l(G) for a primitive digraph G. It is the smallest k for which there is both a walk of length k and a walk of l...