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Yana Kuchirko
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Education/Degree:
1 Developmental Psychology (New York University)
About
Yana Kuchirko is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and is the director of the Culture and Child Development Lab. After receiving her PhD in developmental psychology from New York University, she completed a postdoc at the Institute of Human Development and Social Change at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. In her research, Dr. Kuchirko examines sociocultural and ecological contexts of child development.
Current Work
Dr. Kuchirko's scholarship broadly documents how culture and context shape children's learning. One line of her work focuses on capturing the different kinds of skillsets that ethnic and racial minority children bring to the classroom that aren't recognized by teachers or standardized assessments. Another line of work looks at how different settings (e.g., home, neighborhoods, and school) as well as different activities (e.g., mealtime, book-sharing, play) structure how children interact with others in their community.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Child development, context, Culture, language development