Parenting in Context

The Harvard Gazette reports on Professor Nancy Hill's presentation, "Cultural Worldviews and Belief Systems as Lenses to Understand Ethnic Variations in Parenting and Children’s Development."

In her Fellows’ Presentation, Nancy E. Hill, the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute [and professor of education at HGSE], attempted to do what she herself acknowledged is almost impossible. That is, step outside one’s own cultural belief system to dispassionately analyze data about parenting styles.

As she explained after her May 11 presentation, “Everyone operates from an implicit cultural belief system that shapes how we think and who we are and what we value and what’s important.”

People don’t always realize this “because their own implicit beliefs feel natural. And when they are around people who are like them, [beliefs] feel universal — but they are not.” ... Read the full article in the Harvard Gazette.