DeHaan, Robert F. (1925- ). Papers, 1950-1971, 2003.

Robert F. DeHaan received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1951. His specialties included social psychology, education of the gifted, educational psychology, and programmed instruction. From 1951-1956, he conducted a research project on the gifted at the University of Chicago. From 1956-1963, he was a Professor of Psychology at Hope College. In 1963, he became the Director of the Programmed Instruction Project, GLCA. He has published a variety of articles, a Teachers Guidance Handbook, and Educating Gifted Children, the latter in collaboration with Robert J. Havighurst. In 1966, DeHaan rejoined the faculty of Hope College as the chairman of the Education Department until 1969. He eventually became the director of the Philadelphia Urban Semester from 1970 1974.