Are you becoming a parent? Or even a potential parent in the near future? Do you have family and friends who are parents? Here is an excellent chance to talk with our extraordinary education and child development expert about challenges and possible strategies to deal with such challenges in Chinese parents’ efforts to raise children in America.

Nov 17, 2007 will mark the debut of our CSSA Scholar Lecture Series. In honor of this event, CSSA are pleased to announce an upcoming opening ceremony to celebrate this start, bringing together an exciting and educational lecture to discuss how to help Chinese immigrant children grow up well in US, given by Professor Jin Li. The speech will be delivered in Chinese.

Come and join us in B&H 190 at 4-6 PM on Saturday, Nov 17, 2007, free cookies and drinkings served. 

About the Scholar:

Dr. Jin Li is associate professor of education and human development at Brown University. Originally from China, she received her B.A. in German from Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages in 1982. After immigrating to the U. S., she earned her Master’s degree in education from the University of Pittsburgh in 1988 and her doctoral degree in human development and psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1997. Dr. Li studies children’s beliefs about learning, teaching cognition, self-conscious emotions, and self-concepts and related socialization across cultures. Dr. Li is has been an educational consultant for Sesame Workshop and helped produce Zhima Jie and other U.S. and Chinese children’s TV programs. Dr. Li is author of 3 books and over 40 articles on child development and education.

李瑾博士1982年本科毕业于广州外国语学院德文专业，1988年获得匹兹堡大学教育学硕士学位，1997年获得哈佛教育学院人类发展及心理学博士学位，现任教于布朗大学教育系。李教授的研究方向是不同文化和族裔的儿童学习信念、教学认知、自我意识情绪、和自我概念以及有关的社教化过程。她还担任美国芝麻街制作所的教育顾问，协助出品中国版《芝麻街》和其它儿童电视节目。李教授现已出版3本专著，并在各类学术刊物上和专著中发表关于儿童心理和教育的学术论文40多篇。