Hemalatha Ganapathy‐coleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 228020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hemalatha Ganapathy‐coleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hemalatha |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganapathy‐coleman |
| SIGNATURE | COLEMAN H G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7685-4622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Do You Know Angreji ?” Economically Oppressed Parents on Education, and the Teaching and Learning of English in Schools in India
In this paper, I interpret the perspectives of 19 economically oppressed parents and five teachers from the Indian city of Vadodara, in the state of Gujarat, as they discuss the unprecedented emphasis on the learning of English in education in India. In this ethnographic study, I employed participant observations, sentence completion tasks, in-depth interviews, and focus groups. Verbatim transcripts were uploaded into the qualitative software NVi…
Becoming 'Authentic' Indian women: Displacement, home, and identity among women of the Indian diaspora in the USA
This paper analyzes interviews with 25 immigrant Indian women in the USA, most of whom arrived during the 1980s. Combining data from in-depth interviews of eight of these women from a cultural psychological study and interviews of 17 immigrant Indian women from the Indiana University Oral History Research Center, I use qualitative analysis within the grounded theory approach to offer insights into their lives in the USA. Six themes emerged from t…
Teachers are Always Good. Children have Flaws.’: Memories of School and Learning in the Narratives of Low-income Parents in India
What do the poor in India say about the education their children are receiving? And how do they remember their own years of schooling? This cultural psychological study of parental beliefs about education explored these questions by employing participant observation, in-depth interviews, focus groups and sentence-completion tasks. The participants were 19 low-income parents from the state of Gujarat, India, with a child between 8 and 18 years of …
He thinks Krishna is his friend’: Domestic space and temple sociality in the socialisation beliefs of immigrant Indian Hindu parents
This paper reports results from a study of the cultural belief systems, or ethnotheories, of Asian Indian Hindu parents in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, in the USA. I adopted a cultural, developmental psychological approach and, over a one-year period, used caregiver diaries, ecological inventories, repeated in-depth interviews and participant observations to gain access to the ethnotheories of the parents. These immigrant parents emphasised f…
Speaking About Independence and Family Closeness: Socialisation Beliefs of Immigrant Indian Hindu Parents in the United States
This paper is based on a yearlong cultural psychological study of immigrant Indian Hindu parents in the United States. I examine here their repeated use of two phrases —“be independent” and “be close to family”—that they articulated as their most valued socialisation goals. I argue that although these English terms are seemingly self-evident, the meaning the parents attached to them, in conjunction with their simultaneous emphasis on cultural and…
Raising "Authentic" Indian Children in the United States: Dynamism in the Ethnotheories of Immigrant Hindu Parents
What deeply held beliefs guide first-generation Asian Indian parents in the United States? How do parental conceptions of childrearing change as a result of immigration? What cultural conceptions of children and childrearing are maintained despite the pressures of assimilation? These were the core questions for this qualitative cultural psychological study of the ethnotheories of 10 Hindu parents of Asian Indian origin residing in Baltimore in th…
Challenging western hegemony through systematic study of cultural diversity: An undergraduate course on child development and culture
Traditional courses in developmental psychology treat the development of white, middle‐class European American children as normative. This approach offers an inaccurate representation of child development, displays a lack of sensitivity towards the cultural diversity of students, and fails to meet these students’ intellectual needs. This paper describes an attempt at rectifying this ethical, paradigmatic error in an undergraduate course on child …
Raising "Authentic" Indian Children in the United States: Dynamism in the Ethnotheories of Immigrant Hindu Parents
What deeply held beliefs guide first-generation Asian Indian parents in the United States? How do parental conceptions of childrearing change as a result of immigration? What cultural conceptions of children and childrearing are maintained despite the pressures of assimilation? These were the core questions for this qualitative cultural psychological study of the ethnotheories of 10 Hindu parents of Asian Indian origin residing in Baltimore in th…
Becoming 'Authentic' Indian women: Displacement, home, and identity among women of the Indian diaspora in the USA
This paper analyzes interviews with 25 immigrant Indian women in the USA, most of whom arrived during the 1980s. Combining data from in-depth interviews of eight of these women from a cultural psychological study and interviews of 17 immigrant Indian women from the Indiana University Oral History Research Center, I use qualitative analysis within the grounded theory approach to offer insights into their lives in the USA. Six themes emerged from t…
He thinks Krishna is his friend’: Domestic space and temple sociality in the socialisation beliefs of immigrant Indian Hindu parents
This paper reports results from a study of the cultural belief systems, or ethnotheories, of Asian Indian Hindu parents in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, in the USA. I adopted a cultural, developmental psychological approach and, over a one-year period, used caregiver diaries, ecological inventories, repeated in-depth interviews and participant observations to gain access to the ethnotheories of the parents. These immigrant parents emphasised f…
Challenging western hegemony through systematic study of cultural diversity: An undergraduate course on child development and culture
Traditional courses in developmental psychology treat the development of white, middle‐class European American children as normative. This approach offers an inaccurate representation of child development, displays a lack of sensitivity towards the cultural diversity of students, and fails to meet these students’ intellectual needs. This paper describes an attempt at rectifying this ethical, paradigmatic error in an undergraduate course on child …
Speaking About Independence and Family Closeness: Socialisation Beliefs of Immigrant Indian Hindu Parents in the United States
This paper is based on a yearlong cultural psychological study of immigrant Indian Hindu parents in the United States. I examine here their repeated use of two phrases —“be independent” and “be close to family”—that they articulated as their most valued socialisation goals. I argue that although these English terms are seemingly self-evident, the meaning the parents attached to them, in conjunction with their simultaneous emphasis on cultural and…
Raising "Authentic" Indian Children in the United States: Dynamism in the Ethnotheories of Immigrant Hindu Parents
What deeply held beliefs guide first-generation Asian Indian parents in the United States? How do parental conceptions of childrearing change as a result of immigration? What cultural conceptions of children and childrearing are maintained despite the pressures of assimilation? These were the core questions for this qualitative cultural psychological study of the ethnotheories of 10 Hindu parents of Asian Indian origin residing in Baltimore in th…
Teachers are Always Good. Children have Flaws.’: Memories of School and Learning in the Narratives of Low-income Parents in India
What do the poor in India say about the education their children are receiving? And how do they remember their own years of schooling? This cultural psychological study of parental beliefs about education explored these questions by employing participant observation, in-depth interviews, focus groups and sentence-completion tasks. The participants were 19 low-income parents from the state of Gujarat, India, with a child between 8 and 18 years of …
He thinks Krishna is his friend’: Domestic space and temple sociality in the socialisation beliefs of immigrant Indian Hindu parents
This paper reports results from a study of the cultural belief systems, or ethnotheories, of Asian Indian Hindu parents in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, in the USA. I adopted a cultural, developmental psychological approach and, over a one-year period, used caregiver diaries, ecological inventories, repeated in-depth interviews and participant observations to gain access to the ethnotheories of the parents. These immigrant parents emphasised f…
Do You Know Angreji ?” Economically Oppressed Parents on Education, and the Teaching and Learning of English in Schools in India
In this paper, I interpret the perspectives of 19 economically oppressed parents and five teachers from the Indian city of Vadodara, in the state of Gujarat, as they discuss the unprecedented emphasis on the learning of English in education in India. In this ethnographic study, I employed participant observations, sentence completion tasks, in-depth interviews, and focus groups. Verbatim transcripts were uploaded into the qualitative software NVi…
Becoming 'Authentic' Indian women: Displacement, home, and identity among women of the Indian diaspora in the USA
This paper analyzes interviews with 25 immigrant Indian women in the USA, most of whom arrived during the 1980s. Combining data from in-depth interviews of eight of these women from a cultural psychological study and interviews of 17 immigrant Indian women from the Indiana University Oral History Research Center, I use qualitative analysis within the grounded theory approach to offer insights into their lives in the USA. Six themes emerged from t…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Hinduism (3 works)