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Copyright

Sheina Lew-Levy; Stephen Asatsa;

Published On

2025-05-09

Page Range

pp. 345–352

Language

  • English

Print Length

8 pages

10. Looking forward, looking back

In this final chapter, we offer emerging scholars in cross-cultural childhood learning research the advice we wish we had received at the start of our careers.

Contributors

Sheina Lew-Levy

(author)
Associate Professor of Psychology at Durham University

Sheina Lew-Levy is Associate Professor of Psychology at Durham University, UK. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Cambridge (2019). Drawing from anthropological and psychological theory, she conducts research in hunter-gatherer societies to understand the cultural diversity in, and evolution of, social learning in childhood. As the co-founder and Co-Director of Forager Child Studies, she also conducts cross-cultural reviews and secondary data analysis on the pasts, presents, and futures of hunter-gatherer children’s learning.

Stephen Asatsa

(author)

Stephen Asatsa holds a PhD in Counselling Psychology and is Senior Lecturer at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya. He researches Indigenous knowledge systems with a focus on decolonization of theory, research, and practice. He has published on traditional mourning rituals, traditional marriage rites, traditional circumcision curriculum and use of taboos in behavior regulation. He contributes to multidisciplinary research collaboration networks globally, specifically on personality psychology, cultural evolution, child development, and trauma and death literacy.