Stephanie Soto-Lara conducts research that contributes to strength-based perspectives of underrepresented youth and serves to empower communities. << read more |
Human Development in Context (HDiC)
Human Development in Context (HDiC) focuses on cognitive and socio-emotional development as it takes place in a wide range of contexts across the lifespan. Drawing on education, cognitive science, neuroscience, developmental psychology, and anthropology perspectives, faculty and students conduct lab experiments, engage in field-based studies, and use longitudinal data sets to examine human development in a wide range of areas, including language and literacy, mathematical thinking, motivation, memory, and other cognitive processes, as well as social relationships with peers, teachers, and parents. Research in this area contributes to building theory on human development across the lifespan and intervention efforts, as well as understanding how particular settings such as schools, homes, communities, media & technology, and afterschool programs influence individual developmental trajectories.
RESEARCH
social, institutional, and cultural contexts
cognition & neuroscience
early childhood development and policy
language & literacy
motivation & achievement
special education
stem teaching and learning
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