NSU Horizons Spring 2014

5 HORIZONS A The Mailman Segal Center Gives NSU Students Opportunities to Put Studies into Practice. By Michelle F. Solomon pioneer in childhood education, Marilyn Mailman Segal always had a love for children. She also had an inherent intuitiveness as a childhood education specialist: For a child to develop educationally, there should be a component of learning and teaching behaviorally—and this holistic approach should begin in the early stages of life. She had this viewpoint in the early 1970s, when education began with the alphabet in kindergarten and the idea of learning had not yet been inte- grated with development. The roots of Nova Southeastern University’s Mailman Segal Center for Human Development (MSC) began in 1972 with a Public Broadcasting Station’s film series. Segal had an idea to produce a series of parenting films and applied for a four-year, $500,000 grant. She was awarded the grant from the United States Federal Office of Human Development, and she began to produce her series, To Reach a Child. by Learning Teaching Brittany Musaffi, left, and Nicole Cordero are both in their second year of the Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology program.