I teach in the Behavioral Sciences Department, a far journey from an earlier career in the construction trades in San Francisco before moving east for love, returning to academia to pursue a masters and certificate of advanced study, and earning a d
...MoreI teach in the Behavioral Sciences Department, a far journey from an earlier career in the construction trades in San Francisco before moving east for love, returning to academia to pursue a masters and certificate of advanced study, and earning a doctorate at midlife in 2001 from Boston University. I do not particularly recommend that as an optimal career trajectory, but it has given me experience with and insights into a wide range of people, ethnicities, styles, backgrounds, capacities, situations, and interests, for which I am both richer and grateful. Along the way I became interested in Vygotsky, among others, who I sense would have understood the cultural implications and interconnectedness of these seemingly disparate life elements.
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