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Johnson, Paula – Equity Assistance Center Region II, Intercultural Development Research Association, 2020
Interdisciplinarity provides alternate perspectives through which to better understand the ways in which Black students and their access to education intersect and collide. This literature review proposes the employment of an interdisciplinary paradigm that centers the development of students' academic identity through culturally responsive…
Descriptors: Students, Blacks, African American Students, Racial Identification
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Altman, Julie Cooper; Schaffner Goldberg, Gertrude; Quiros, Laura – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2017
The benefits of literature are countless. Social workers, however, are usually not inclined to count the teaching and practice of social work among its beneficiaries. We believe that literature is one of the ways to enrich vital components of social work knowledge, attitudes, and skills. In this article, we begin by calling attention to a…
Descriptors: Social Work, Literature, Didacticism, Empathy
Gardner, Howard – Creativity Research Journal, 1988
A number of research disciplines have contributed to an emerging picture of creative individuals, processes, and achievements. Contributions to a science of creativity are reviewed, focusing on the psychometric approach, cognitive approaches, studies of personality and motivation, sociological and historiometric investigations, and neurobiological…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Creativity, Creativity Research, Individual Development
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Duvall, Evelyn Millis – Family Relations, 1988
Reviews the history of human development, and of family development and its interdisciplinary nature. Explores variations as well as the universality of the family life cycle and developmental tasks. Presents examples of the applications of family developmental concepts by a variety of practitioners in the family field, offering ideas on research…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Counseling
Landesman, Sharon; And Others – 1987
This paper describes a conceptual framework for studying the family environment that (1) incorporates recent advances in understanding multiple social influences on behavior; (2) recognizes common and idiosyncratic characteristics of families as social units; (3) identifies research strategies that can be used to assess families; and (4) generates…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Cognitive Development, Cultural Awareness, Emotional Development
Tolliver, Derise; Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – 2002
Various disciplinary perspectives can help in understanding relationships among cultural identity, spirituality, and sociopolitical development and their role in teaching for transformation. Educators must consider how the spirituality omnipresent in the learning environment informs emancipatory education. Cultural identity development is coming…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Afrocentrism, Black Power