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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