Dr. João Claudio Todorov was born in Santo Anastácio, State of São Paulo, Brazil, on June 8, 1941. He obtained his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of São Paulo in 1963. Admitted to the Masters Program of the University of Brasília, he was a teaching assistant from 1964 to 1965, moving in August 1965 to the Ph.D. Program of Arizona State University, where he was Faculty Associate.
Returning to Brazil in 1969, he was Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Medical School of the University of São Paulo in Ribeirão Preto. From 1973 to 2000 he was a professor of the University of Brasília.
His publications include a book of readings, 10 chapters in books, and 80 articles published. He was editor of Psicologia: Ciência e Profissão and of the Brazilian Journal of Behavior Analysis and served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, Behavior and Philosophy, and Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa.
He is Professor of Psychology at the Catholic University of Goiás and Coordinator of the undergraduate course of psychology at the Instituto de Educação Superior de Brasília (IESB). Dr. Todorovs talk is titled The Globalization of Academia.
Abstract: In spite of being in danger of becoming uninhabitable for us, the world is somewhat a better place to live now than fifty years before. Knowledge travels faster across borders and the number of people going places around the world, as tourists or looking for work, is record breaking. In such a global world limitation of student formation within the borders of any country makes no sense. The further dissemination of behavior analysis will depend on the sharing of knowledge and the uniform development of one science of behavior.
I begin with thanks to the board of directors of SABA for this distinction. The prize for the International Dissemination of Behavior Analysis is an honor that I cherish. I must acknowledge, however, several people who were co-responsible for my deeds. Ill begin with Gil Sherman, my teacher in São Paulo, who recommended me to Carolina Bori, who invited me to join the Fred Keller gang that went to Brasília. I was supposed to apply for a Ph.D. in Columbia, but Keller convinced me to come to Arizona State University where I met, as teachers, Greenspoon, Bachrach, Brownstein, Pliskoff, Verhave, Jack Michael, Lee Myerson, and worked as teaching assistant with Keller and Gil Sherman developing the Personalized System of Instruction. My colleagues in the graduate program of the good old times are today in the list of Who is Who in behavior analysis: Rick Shull, Randy Flory, Donald Green, Jon Bailey, Scott Lawrence, Scott Woods, and Andre Fleming-Holland. With that quality of influence I had to do something good in life!
I also owe appreciation to my students from the US, where I started my teaching career at the Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, invited by my former teacher James Russell Nazzaro, then chair of the Department of Psychology. In Mexico, invited by Emílio Ribes, I had the chance to learn from Mexican, Colombian, and Venezuelan students. In Brazil, initially at the University of São Paulo then the University of Brasília and now the Catholic University of Goiás and IESB I was fortunate to meet excellent students, like Deisy das Graças de Souza and Elenice Hanna, some of them behind the movement that resulted in my nomination for the consideration of the Board of Directors of SABA.
As a teacher and researcher, I always prepared my students for a Ph.D. outside the country, even after our graduate programs were established. From the beginning, the students were directed to different countries (US, Mexico, Wales, Belgium) and different research areas, trying to broaden their perspectives and disseminate their knowledge. Unfortunately, Brazil has gone the other way for the last 15 years and there are no longer scholarships available for a Ph.D. abroad if we have a similar program in Brazil. That is too bad for a country that speaks Portuguese. Brazilian researchers are staying in the country, publishing in Portuguese, as monoglotas as American researchers (but in an unpopular language!). The present ceremony gives me the opportunity to begin another program for the dissemination of Brazilian behavior analysis abroad, asking my colleagues to at least publish in English! For that purpose, we have the Brazilian Journal of Behavior Analysis.
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Well done Mr. Todorov!!!!! Eu aprecio o seu trabalho imensamente, sua personalidade e tambem a sua contribuicao intelectual para que formemos um Brasil melhor. PArabens e continue espalhando essa vasta sabedoria e cultura por onde passas. Obrigado. adriano
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