Academic Qualifications

BA (Panjab), M.Ed, PhD (Birmingham), D.Litt (Wales), C. Psychologist, FBPsS, FRSA

Paul Ghuman was awarded a personal chair (ethnic minority  education) by the University of Wales in 1998.

Fellowships:

Fellow of British Psychological Society

Fellow of Royal Society of Arts

Fellow of International Academy for Inter-Cultural Research

Fellow

 

My main research interests at present are as follows:

• Ethnic identity of minority group adolescents
• Child-rearing practices of ethnic minority groups
• Culture and cognition: comparative studies
• Scholastic achievement of ethnic young people
• Issues relating to bilingualism and biculturalism
• The Teaching of Community Languages in Supplementary Schools: a cross cultural perspective
• Daughters of traditions
• Dalits and their Education in the West
• South Asian Young People: A Review

Some Recent Publications

• Touching the Untouchables (Dalits of India)
• A Case Study of Dalit Women in a Punjabi Village: 1950 and 2006. Durham Journal of Anthropology, January 2008.
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• Double Loyalties: South Asian Adolescents in the West. (Published by the University of Wales Press in August 2003)

 Independent Reviews of Double Loyalties

      This book is well-organised ...and makes a more than useful contribution to understanding the need for dialogue and education in order to foster inter-ethnic harmony in diverse societies. Educational Review, Vol.7, No. 3 August 2005.

      The book is also very well referenced in framing all the aspects under discussion within an appropriate and often very up-to-date academic context. It is, therefore, in this respect, an excellent source for any student embarking on the study of this area. The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Vol. 8, No 6, 2005.

The book will be used by a wide variety of professional. its solid conclusions and policy-related future recommendations make it a profitable reading for researches and teachers alike. I can only regret that this enlightening study was not available when I began my own related research. The Welsh Journal of Education, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2004.

• Foreword: Double Loyalties:
• Double Loyalties: details of publication and review:
• Bibliography of Double Loyalties
• Students' background questionnaire Students
• Americans or Hyphenated Americans: A study of South Asian young people/American or Hyphenated American  
• Child-Rearing in Ethnic Minorities. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters
• Asian Adolescents in the West The British Psychological Society
• Selective Reviews of Asian Adolescents in the West. Leicester: The British Psychological Society.
• Asian Girls in Secondary Schools: a British perspective; Intercultural Education Vol. No2, 2001
• Acculturation of South Asian Adolescents in Australia; British Journal of Educational Psychology, (2000) 70, 305-316
• Acculturation of South Asian young people in Australia
• Child-rearing of Punjabis :Child
• My CV
• Young people's voices
• Young Minds
• Self-Identity Issues of South Asians young people in Australian schools. Australian Journal of Education, 2001 vol. 45, 1, 48-61.
• South Asian Adolescents in Four Cultures. Book under preparation.
• 'Culture and Cognition: The Intellectual Development of Indian Adolescents', Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis 32 (2): 275-90 (1996)
• Bilingualism, Education and Identity (Editor, with Bob Morris Jones). Cardiff: University of Wales Press (1995)
• Asian Teachers in British Schools. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters (1995)
• 'A Study of Multicultural Education in Welsh Schools and PGCE Students' Attitudes to MCE', Welsh Journal of Education 5 (1): 82-95 (1995)
• 'Acculturation, Ethnic Identity and Community Languages: A Study of Indo-Canadian Adolescents' (in Bilingualism, Education and Identity)
• Coping with Two Cultures: British Asian and Indo-Canadian Adolescents. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters (1994)
• 'Canadian or Indo-Canadian: A Study of South Asian Adolescents', International Journal of Adolescence and Youth 4: 229-43 (1994)
• 'Asian Teachers in British Schools: A Qualitative Study', European Journal of Teacher Education, 17 (3): 171-86 (1994)

Public Lectures are considered on the following topics:

Asian Girls in the West

Acculturation of Asian Young people

Untouchables of India

Child-Rearing practices of Indian Parents

Sikhism and Education

Some Web Links

• Aber On-Line Directory
• alt.education.research (News Group)
• American Psychological Society
• Asian Cinema (Continuum Vol 2. No 1)
• Asian Values and the Role of the Media in Society
• Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Bicultural Identity (up-to-date Alta Vista Search)
• Biculturalism (up-to-date Alta Vista Search)
• British Education Index
• British Psychological Society
• California University, San Diego : The Centre for Comparative Immigration Studies
• CEIFO (Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations) Stockholm University
• Celebrities in Cognitive Science
• Child Development (ED10210)
• Child Development (up-to-date Alta Vista Search)
• Child-Rearing Practices (up-to-date Alta Vista Search)
• Critical Multiculturalism (Continuum, Vol 8, No 2, 1994)
• Cross-Cultural Psychology (up-to-date Alta Vista Search)
• Department for Education and Employment (UK)
• Developmental Psychology (up-to-date Alta Vista Search)
• Developmental Psychology (Galaxy Search)
• Educational Journals (Carfax)
• Educational Links on the Web (NCET)
• Educational Psychology (A) (ED30110)
• Educational Psychology (B) (ED30210)
• Educational Research in Scotland
• Educational Research Sites
• Educational Researchers: An E-Mail Directory (AERA, on Gopher)
• The Electronic Telegraph newspaper
• ERIC On-Line Database
• ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council
• Ethnicity, Racism and the Media (ERAM, Bradford, UK)
• European Society for Developmental Psychology
• 'Formal Operational Thought and the Moroccan Adolescent': Douglas A. Davis
• The Guardian newspaper
• Harvard  Centre for Research on Imigration
• 'How Do You Cite Web Pages in a Bibliography?'
• How to Set Up Your own Home Page at UWA
• Human Sciences Links (Johns Hopkins University)
• Institute for Research in Social Science
• International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Internet Bookshop
• International Comparative Studies of Ethnocultural Youth (ICSEY)
• Internet Resources for Henry Gleitman's Psychology (4th edn.)
• Michigan State University http://www.cal.msu.edu/english/
• MLA/APA Reference Style Guides (on Gopher)
• Multicultural Education (ED30910)
• Multiculturalism (up-to-date Alta Vista Search)
• Myers-Briggs Personality Test
• Myers-Briggs Personality Test: Frequently-Asked Questions
• Narrative Psychology
• Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science
• University of Oxford: Centre on Migration and Policy (ESRC)
• Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (on Gopher)
• University of Princeton (Center for Migration and Development)  http://cmd.princeton.edu/cils.htm
• Personality Analysis
• Psyc Site (Excellent list of psychology resources)
• Psychology Departments in Britain and Ireland
• Psychology Journals on the Net
• Psychology Web Pages from Around the World
• Psychological Societies on the Internet
• Psycholoquy (American Psychological Association)
• Research Engines for the Social Sciences
• Research Methods (ACA Links)
• Resources for Social Science (Boulder, Colorado)
• The Social Construction of Whiteness: Ruth Frankenberg (Reviews, via Gopher)
• Theory and Psychology Journal
• The Times newspaper (London)
• UK Government Listing of Education Agencies
• UK Psychology Gateway
• UK Social Science Gateway
• UK Sociology Gateway
• UK University Education Departments
• UWA Library Catalogue
• The Virtual Faculty
• Virtual Library Master List for Social Sciences
• Vygotsky's Social Development Theory
• Warwick University (Center For Ethnic Relations)

Contact Details

 Snail Mail

Department of Education
University of Wales
Aberystwyth
Dyfed
Wales (UK)

Tel: +44 (0)1970 621928 (Internal - x1928)
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622258 (Education General Office)