M. L. J. Abercrombie - Research and Education

Research and Education

There was a clear line of development in her work that was always underpinned by her interest in educational work. She progressively developed her research and thinking from her early years as a zoology teacher through her growing involvement in Group Analysis and its application in education. Throughout her work, three themes - the selective and projective nature of perception and reasoning; the difficulty that human beings experience in changing; the subtlety and complexity of communication - continually interact with and enrich one another. She increasingly concentrated on group analysis and its relevance to and use in higher education involving "free" or "associative" group discussion as she used it in her own work with students.