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The incessant rate at which the world is changing is causing greater levels stress, especially for youth. Shared global challenges such as climate change, threats of disease, political unrest, the rise of artificial intelligence, or extinctions of animal and plant species, are just some examples of the uncertainties and concerns that are now part of childhood and young adulthood.
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In my forthcoming book Cultural Learning in Urban Schools and Minority Serving Institutions, I explore one of the most urgent human capital challenges in the American workforce today: how to staff K-16 schools serving students from low-income and other minoritized cultural communities (LIMCCs) with teachers prepared to learn and work effectively across cultural differences between […]
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This blog celebrates publication of Facing death across cultures, a book four years in the making, begun as the pandemic first erupted. Inspiration for the book germinated two decades ago, when I was composing music for a documentary about Mitsuo Aoki, who founded the Department of Religion at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and […]
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When I was a little girl, bullied by my peers and misunderstood by my teachers, I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up. I dreamed of my future life as a professor, filling my brain with facts and my shelves with books. In my ivory tower, I would be surrounded by peers who shared my love […]
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I got my first mobile phone when I was 18 years old. Internet at my time still made this annoying sound trying to connect from the phoneline, that somebody else needed every time you were doing something very very but very important for 16-year-old me at the time. Technology has evolved incredibly rapidly since, research […]
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People will always do what they want to do. Right? Well, not exactly. We can easily think about situations in which we tried to change someone else’s mind: begging parents for a toy, asking a reluctant friend to come to a dinner party, or making a case for your boss to grant you a few […]
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Why do we see the behaviors that we do in the world? This question has challenged many notable thinkers, including Darwin, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss, Durkheim, and many other past and recent thinkers. Their conclusions identified how things in the world – from species to thoughts to culture – rely on the interconnectivity of the systems […]
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“It’s 10 O’clock – do you know where your children are?” This question was widely posed to parents in public service announcements broadcast on the radio and TV and posted on billboards in the US from the 1960s to the 1990s. These public service announcements were based on scientific research on parental monitoring—parents’ behaviors aimed […]
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