Christopher Kazanjian

• Professor (Assistant) at El Paso Community College

Essentials of the Social and Emotional Intelligences explores the foundations of social and emotional intelligences from a multicultural humanistic psychology perspective. Delving into the spectrum of abilities associated with holistic emotional processes, this book unravels the intricacies of developing self-awareness, regulating emotional states,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered societies worldwide, exposing power, privilege, and social injustices for minority and marginalized populations. Institutions of higher education were particularly affected by challenges with enrollment, creating institution-wide virtual learning environments, altering extra-curricular activities, and...

Creating Meaning in Young Adulthood explores the ways in which young adults are creating meanings in life through their relationships with the world. Chapters synthesize research in the fields of child psychology, counseling, multicultural education, and existential-humanistic psychology to offer readers a contemporary understanding of the greater...

Scholarly empirical research, in addition to educational and psychological organizations, have recommended that education systems around the world take a proactive approach to helping youth prevent or cope with emotional disturbances, such as anxiety and depression. Research literature has revealed that negative forms of stress that lead to mental...

Educators in higher education around the world are engaging rapidly diversifying educational settings, where underserved, transnational students, with racial and differing backgrounds are not receiving equitable post-secondary education experiences. When educationalists in these multicultural schools appreciate neuroscientific models of the mind an...

Around the world, the twenty-first-century secondary classroom is based on growing cultural diversity. Educators that employ a culturally responsive curriculum with a proposed framework of existential pedagogy for secondary education seek to promote the academic success of culturally diverse learners. It is argued in this paper that in culturally r...

With record numbers of people migrating around the globe, cultural diversity has become a fact in most developed societies. In the United States, public school classrooms have experienced a rapid growth in cultural and linguistic diversity. As a result, public school teachers seeking to become multicultural educators, might be assisted by qualitati...

This paper argues that the purpose of education is to help students realise their unique potentials and pursue inner directions. With this assumption, we critique the inadequacy of the current emphasis on standardisation and provide a theoretical framework for teacher education based on humanistic psychology. Three tenets of humanistic psychology,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer educators and social workers three innovative tools to engage diverse community environments. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology of this paper comes from extensive research into areas of the 1950s Beat culture, humanistic psychology and Bhuddism. The literature has been synthesized to crea...

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the importance, power, and significance of relationships and presence in non-directive group encounters for displaced children. Design/methodology/approach – First, the importance of relationship in not only defining but also transforming “who we are” has been discussed. Then, the conditions that can be growth-...

This paper utilizes a humanistic psychology theoretical framework and pays attention to the rampancy of anxiety affecting youth in the United States. This paper intends to explore the phenomena of anxiety and discuss how it could be perceived as an opportunity for growth if approached in a constructive way. Specifically, we argue that youth need to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper discusses psychologist Clark Moustakas' concept of loneliness and argues that it is relevant and applicable to engaging displaced children. Design/methodology/approach – The number of youth compulsorily displaced has reached record levels in the world's history. Loneliness may be a pervading element in the displ...

The twenty-first century has experienced a surge of intellectuals and specialists that dominate understandings of life and human phenomena. Reawakening the Gramscian definition of the organic intellectual, this paper problematizes ideas of intellectual qualification. It argues that an amateuristic mind will ultimately come to appreciate a humanisti...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the ontology of the exile and its implications for intellectuals, educators, and those seeking greater intercultural understandings. Culture to these scholars of exile becomes problematized as they feel a sense of estrangement to all cultures. Design/methodology/approach – The paper acts as a review of literatu...

Purpose – Many twenty‐first century academics engaged in the discourse of multicultural issues have misplaced their focus on polemics and platitudes. In the USA, students are not following a curriculum that will help them understand multiculturalism nor are they being given the tools to help shape the global community. The purpose of this paper is...

Standardization and curriculum alignment are the dominant curricular forces in education today. Due in part to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, education has become singularly focused on teaching towards the test in order to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), yet data has shown that using standardized testing does not result in increa...

Border pedagogy is a multicultural educational approach utilized in multicultural settings to help students understand their histories and experiences and how it affects their identities and cultures. The approach seeks to produce intellectuals that transcend physical and metaphysical boundaries. The goal of border pedagogy is to remove cultural an...