2:50 p.m.
Put this one the next meeting also- I think this is where the overlap with
behavior/positive behavior support/social skills/SEL will be with social-cultural issues-
around the ideas of acculturation and enculturation, acculturative stress and mental
health.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enculturation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acculturation
Attached is a short paper- many of the people talking about culture are not evidence based
and mostly rely on ideology…we need to understand what the research literature says on it
and which constructs are valid.
“Ward, Bochner, & Furnham,
2001) has identified three main areas of human life that change
during acculturation, and referred to these as the ‘‘ABCs of
Acculturation,’’ with the ‘‘ABCs’’ referring respectively to
affective, behavioral, and cognitive aspects of the acculturation
process.”
The thorny issue we will run into is the identarian problem being critiqued and strangely
enough being promoted by many, (but not all) in multi-cultural education - which in many
ways, seems to work against pluralism and inclusion- my guess it will round back around to
our earlier conversations about universals and particulars- people are struggling still to
figure out what is the same and what is different and in what domain in cross
social-cultural comparisons- we see that playing out in current discussions of
overrepresentation/underrepresentation discussions in disability as well as a host of
other areas.
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