Visiting Associate Professor of Education

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Yoko Yamamoto has examined education, families, and children in diverse sociocultural contexts. Integrating theories and research in psychology, sociology, and education, she has focused on understanding cultural beliefs related to learning and home-school partnerships in relation to ethnicity, immigrant context, and socioeconomic resources. She has conducted longitudinal research examining strengths and challenges in diverse families' socialization and their children's development in Japan and the U.S. 

Dr. Yamamoto was an Abe Fellow (2012) and a recipient of the Erin Phelps Award for her journal article (2017). She has also been an invited summer scholar at Osaka University, Japan (2013-present). She has co-founded and co-chaired the Diversity Science Initiative Committee for the Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD). 

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