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This book explores the concept of "socially-responsible psychology
in a global age" and how it might be used to organize, integrate
and bring enhanced focus a field that has the potential to
contribute to solutions to the world's most pressing problems. In
this volume, the editors explore the central and defining features
of socially-responsible psychology, challenges that this work would
face, and the mechanisms and processes by which psychological work
could be synergistically integrated with the work of other
disciplines. For this purpose, the volume also examines a variety
of factors currently that limit psychology in carrying out this
goal.
This book explores the concept of "socially-responsible psychology
in a global age" and how it might be used to organize, integrate
and bring enhanced focus a field that has the potential to
contribute to solutions to the world's most pressing problems. In
this volume, the editors explore the central and defining features
of socially-responsible psychology, challenges that this work would
face, and the mechanisms and processes by which psychological work
could be synergistically integrated with the work of other
disciplines. For this purpose, the volume also examines a variety
of factors currently that limit psychology in carrying out this
goal.
This volume is a study of empowered, resilient, and globally
responsible moral consciousness in the historical context of a
global transition to a new level of sociohistorical organization in
society. This work develops further the Freirean concept of
critical consciousness, and describes its lifespan ontogeny,
integrating moral psychology, critical theory and cultural
critique, education, religion, and social ethics theory with
cross-cultural empirical research. What evolves is a new level of
understanding of human motivation, and individual and collective
human spiritual potential at the turn of the 21st century. Critical
consciousness (CC) is analyzed in terms of the harmonious
integration of mind and heart, of cognitive, volitional and
affective capacities. Its lifespan evolution is described through
three levels: Pre-CC, Transitional CC, and mature CC, and the
dynamics of each level are explored through in-depth,
cross-cultural case studies encompassing the continuum between
ordinary people and moral leaders. The paradigmatic limitations of
current education and social science from the prespective of the
normative construct of critical consciousness are examined, and a
foundation is provided for re-thinking contemporary educational
vision. This work also explores the emerging spiritual psychology
of integration at the turn of the century, as it begins to bridge
the split between theory and praxis, to contribute more fully to
the global efforts to evolve a civil society, based on justice and
unity in diversity.
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