Prof Frank C. Worrell, Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley
Public education is one of the potent public health interventions, but its effective-ness depends on the interaction between the individual and the context. As such, much of the research in this area has focused on identifying individual and contex-tual factors that increase vulnerability or promote resilience based on the assump-tion that the context is fixed. An ecological perspective requires us to consider not just the context but how that context is interpreted by the individual and how inter-pretations can affect attitudes, behaviours, and cognitions. In this presentation, Prof Worrell will review his research agenda focused on temporal constructs and high-light how the perspectives taken by the individual can lead to positive or negative views of the world
Frank is the Professor of Education, at the University of California, Berkley and was President of the American Psychological Association in 2022. He serves as the Di-rector of the School Psychology program, the Academic Talent Development Pro-gram, and the California College Preparatory Academy. His areas of expertise in-clude academic talent development/gifted education, at-risk youth, cultural identi-ties, scale development and validation, teacher effectiveness, time perspective, and the translation of psychological research findings into school-based practice. In his research, he examines the role of psychosocial constructs as risk and protective factors in relation to students’ educational and psychological functioning.
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