教育: BA, University of California-Berkeley, 1984; MEd, 哈佛大学, 1985; MA, 富勒神学院, 1993; MA, California State University-Northridge, 2003; PhD, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2009. 自2022年起在SPU工作.
As a sociocultural developmental psychologist, Dr. Piljoo康’s research interests focus on mentoring relationships for minority/marginalized adolescents and racial identity development among White emerging adults. Her primary research focuses on the sociocultural and contextual influences of family and community mentors on the psychological functioning of minority and marginalized children and adolescents. Her second line of research involves White racial identity development among emerging adults. Unlike minority children who grow up being socialized into thinking about their race and culture, White adolescents and emerging adults are under-socialized to be engaged in sustained constructive conversations involving race, 种族, 特权, 结构性种族主义. Her research examines the psychological meaning-making and racial identity development among 今天’s White young adults.
在来SPU之前, she taught and mentored a diverse population of students at a major Hispanic-serving public institution (California State University, Northridge) and a private Christian liberal arts college (Azusa Pacific University) in California as well as in the South (Toccoa Falls College). She teaches with passion, creativity, and dedication. She believes students’ agentive power and self-efficacy are the most crucial aspect of teaching and learning. She encourages students to become active participants in their growth and connect the content materials they learn in the classroom to the actual world they find themselves in.
Prior to teaching full-time at higher educational institutions, she had worked as a director for an inner-city youth mentoring program in Lincoln Heights of Los Angeles, 提供教育, 田园保健, and counseling for the under特权d, at-risk child and youth of Mexican and Korean immigrant families. As a practitioner working with children and adolescents in community settings, she understood how faith-based community organizations could provide support and resources for at-risk children to facilitate their educational successes.
Essentially, she is a multicultural interdisciplinary educator. She sees human development not only from a psychological point of view but also from anthropological, 神学, 以及语言学的观点. As a Christian developmental scientist who recognizes the transformative nature of human beings and the inner workings of the Holy Spirit in individual hearts, her ultimate life goal is to become a knowledgeable guide and an authentic mentor for her students.
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西塞尔,.*，史密斯，R.*，钉子，H.*, & 康,P. (2022年2月). 原生家庭的影响 & diversity of environment on self-concept among White young adults. (海报展示). Society for Personality and Social Psychology. 旧金山，加州.
史密斯,R.*和康，P. (2022). Access to Culturally Competent Childcare Services for Refugee 佐治亚州克拉克斯顿的家庭. 公共正义
康,P. & Skeen K.*(2022年2月). The Intersectionality of White racial identity and being a Southern Christian. [数据闪电战简报]. Self and Identity Preconference, at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. 旧金山，加州.
康,P. (审查). Ethnic church mentoring: Buffer against outside prejudice and inside 成功的压力. 社区心理学杂志
康,P. (2021年7月). White Identity: Perspectives on White Privilege. [数据闪电战]32 International Congress of Psychology in Prague, the Czech Republic. 混合动力.
康,P. (2020). Instructor’s Resource Manual and Test Bank & PPT演讲. 为 Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect Crosson-Tower的第十版. 新泽西州霍博肯:皮尔逊.
康,P和Romo, L. (2011). 教会参与的角色, 灵性, and mentoring relationships in developmental outcomes of Korean American adolescents. 青少年杂志，34, 767-778.