Storytelling for Sustainability Education, Cultural Learning and Social Change

Creating Mentoring Opportunities to Promote Cultural Competencies and Social Justice

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/0011000016688781 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 137-157 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Puncky Paul Heppner

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Social Change ◽

Real Life ◽

The United States ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Learning Opportunities ◽

Cultural Learning ◽

Cultural Competencies ◽

Strategic Role ◽

Definition Of

This article focuses on the application of mentorship strategies to develop cultural competencies and promote social justice in future generations of counseling psychologists. Moreover, the emphasis is on building pedagogical structures that provide necessary learning opportunities for mentees, guidance and mentoring, as well as needed social change. Specifically, pedagogical structures paired with mentoring opportunities were created to: (a) inspire and expand students’ cultural learning to promote cultural competencies in both university and community populations, (b) promote understanding of current and historical events affecting the hearts and souls of mentees, (c) provide mentees with strategies to successfully navigate across cultural borders within the United States, (d) promote culturally-infused student services, (e) promote cultural competencies in crossing national borders, and (f) utilize psychological research as a vehicle of social change. Thus, this article expands the traditional definition of mentoring to include a planful and strategic role in creating real-life, real-time educational opportunities to promote social justice at one university across a decade, that are easily transferable to other institutions.

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Culture and the plasticity of perception

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002887 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Lifshitz ◽

T. M. Luhrmann

Keyword(s):

Cultural Context ◽

Sensory Experience ◽

Cultural Learning ◽

The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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Skill-based engagement with a rich landscape of affordances as an alternative to thinking through other minds

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x1900284x ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Julian Kiverstein ◽

Erik Rietveld

Keyword(s):

Social Behaviour ◽

Cultural Learning ◽

Other Minds ◽

Middle Way ◽

Internalist Account

Abstract Veissière and colleagues make a valiant attempt at reconciling an internalist account of implicit cultural learning with an externalist account that understands social behaviour in terms of its environment-involving dynamics. However, unfortunately the author's attempt to forge a middle way between internalism and externalism fails. We argue their failure stems from the overly individualistic understanding of the perception of cultural affordances they propose.

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