In the process of ratification

Psychology, Culture and Gender

Coordinator:
Noelia Rodríguez-Espartal
Year Founded:
2014
Year of ratification by the VRI:
2021

Limbs

Araníbar Chacón, Cesar Marcelo; Borja Chavez, Jorge Diego Augusto; Bravo Arenas, María Pía; Cajas Alvarado, Lilia Milagros; Costilla Flores, Carlos Andrés; De La Puente Ronceros, Rafaella Andrea; De La Torre Mannarelli, Stefano; Godoy Hurtado, Carolina Lucía; Guerrero Concepcion, Monica Silvana; Guillen Zambrano, Henry Raul; Morales Arévalo, Guillermo Alonso; Navarro Astupiña, Carla María; Palacios Romero, Juan Armando; Pease Dreibelbis, María Angélica; Pease Dreibelbis, María Elena Rosalina; Pecho Ricaldi, Priscilla Luz; Pérez Wicht Arispe, Jose Antonio; Prado Manrique, Ana Nilda Victoria; Puescas Argote, Aarón Roberto; Ramírez Meneses, Daniela Estefanía; Rispa Hoyos, Maria Luisa Fernanda; Rivera Aliaga,Blanca Mayte; Rodriguez-Espartal, Noelia; Urbano Flores, Estefanía Sahrai.

Researchers

Objectives

General

To generate scientific knowledge regarding the relationships between psychological and cultural processes that allow feeding proposals and educational and social policies, respectful of cultural and gender diversity and human development in different contexts.

Specific

  • To generate scientific knowledge on the relationship and interaction of psychological and cultural variables in formal and non-formal educational processes.
  • To generate scientific knowledge about the characteristics that have an impact on the construction of interculturality and citizenship in different environments (communities, school, family, among others) and their relationship with the particularities of human development.
  • To generate scientific knowledge on the relationship between psychosocial and cultural variables involved in gender relations, violence and discrimination against vulnerable groups.
  • To generate scientific knowledge on psychosocial variables and cultural dynamics related to sexuality, diversity/disidence and comprehensive sexuality education in formal and non-formal contexts.

Research Topics

  • Culture and development. 
  • Psychology and violence. 
  • Gender, diversity and sexuality. 
  • Beliefs and social representations of teachers and students about education, culture and gender. 
  • Cultural variability in human development in general and in the experience of adolescence in particular. 
  • Psychology of intercultural relations 
  • Psychology, honor culture and gender. 
  • Feminism(s) and masculinity(ies).  
  • Comprehensive Sexual Education. 
  • Construction, development and deconstruction of gender. 
  • Discrimination and violence based on sex, gender, and sexual and affective orientation. 
  • Maternity, development and inclusion. 
  • Social policies in relation to sexual health and equity and non-violence based on gender or sexual orientation.
  • Conceptions, beliefs and social representations of teachers and students related to citizenship and intercultural citizenship education.
  • Health and well-being. Positive psychology, emotional intelligence.
  • Legal, forensic and penitentiary psychology.
  • Grief and resilience.