Kenneth J. Gergen is a Senior Research Professor in Psychology at Swarthmore College, and the President of the Taos Institute. He is internationally known for his contributions to social constructionist theory, technology and cultural change, the self, aging, education, and relational theory and practices. His major writings include, Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction, The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life, and Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community. His most recent work Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education (with Scherto Gill) offers a relational constructionist alternative to the destructive practices of testing and grading in education. Gergen lectures throughout the world, and has received numerous awards for his work, including honorary degrees in both the U.S. and Europe.

• PART ONE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND THE HUMAN SCIENCESConstructionism and RealismA Necessary Collision?The Place of the Psyche in a Constructed WorldThe Limits of Pure CritiqueWho Speaks and Who Responds in the Human Sciences?History and PsychologyConflict and CommunionPART TWO: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND SOCIETAL PRACTICETherapy as Social ConstructionSocial Construction with Pedagogical PracticePower in a Relational FrameThe Ethical Challenge of Global OrganizationOrganizational Science in a Postmodern ContextPART THREE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND CULTURAL CONTEXTFrom Identity to Relational PoliticsTechnology, Self and the Moral Project

Kenneth J. Gergen is a Senior Research Professor in Psychology at Swarthmore College, and the President of the Taos Institute. He is internationally known for his contributions to social constructionist theory, technology and cultural change, the self, aging, education, and relational theory and practices. His major writings include, Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction, The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life, and Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community. His most recent work Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education (with Scherto Gill) offers a relational constructionist alternative to the destructive practices of testing and grading in education. Gergen lectures throughout the world, and has received numerous awards for his work, including honorary degrees in both the U.S. and Europe.

• PART ONE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND THE HUMAN SCIENCESConstructionism and RealismA Necessary Collision?The Place of the Psyche in a Constructed WorldThe Limits of Pure CritiqueWho Speaks and Who Responds in the Human Sciences?History and PsychologyConflict and CommunionPART TWO: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND SOCIETAL PRACTICETherapy as Social ConstructionSocial Construction with Pedagogical PracticePower in a Relational FrameThe Ethical Challenge of Global OrganizationOrganizational Science in a Postmodern ContextPART THREE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND CULTURAL CONTEXTFrom Identity to Relational PoliticsTechnology, Self and the Moral Project