Dr. Schulze earned her Ph.D. in Family Studies from the University of Connecticut in 2000. Her dissertation, titled "The Cultural Structuring of Universal Developmental Tasks," focused on Anglo and Puerto Rican parents' beliefs and practices regardi
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Dr. Schulze earned her Ph.D. in Family Studies from the University of Connecticut in 2000. Her dissertation, titled "The Cultural Structuring of Universal Developmental Tasks," focused on Anglo and Puerto Rican parents' beliefs and practices regarding three universal aspects of childrearing: encouraging infant/toddler self-feeding, sleeping through the night, and self-toileting. Her primary research interest is in the area of culturally diverse parent-child intereactions. Her work has been published in journals such as Child Development, The Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, and Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. Dr. Schulze is currently Associate Professor of Child Development and Division Coordinator of Family and Child Development in the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio, USA.
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