The article discusses effects of Sanskrit schooling, a traditional system of education in India, which has continued for several thousand years. Sanskrit schooling continues to be in operation in India, but has been pushed out to the margins after the introduction of formal Western-type...

Indigenous psychology as a global movement includes First Nations people who were colonised and live today as minorities amidst European majorities in their homelands. This creates the imperative for a psychology of self-determination and cultural healing. The six articles in this Special Issue...

For ‘linguists to have any impact on reversing diminishing linguistic diversity’, says Muhlhauser (in Austin and Sallabank, 2011: 31), ‘they must focus their efforts on preserving language ecologies, not languages’. This article focuses on the preservation of dialect by...

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...

Five MÄori women from one tribal community in Aotearoa/New Zealand narrated their stories of multi-generational legacies of historical trauma. Although psychological/spiritual trauma effects remain for these women, consciousness of trauma in these narratives was seen in a positive light as...

Indigenous peoples in the 21st century colonial contexts face many challenges, not least of which is the struggle to retain cultural identity, beliefs, knowledge and traditions. While Western psychological theories offer insights into how identities are formed, there is a need for models of...

The colonial relationship between MÄori and PÄkehÄ cultures has often resulted in the deprioritisation of mÄtauranga MÄori (including te reo MÄori) from both MÄori and PÄkehÄ (NZ Europeans). Interviews with 19 MÄori language learners explored how MÄori and PÄkehÄ relationships...

The article focuses on issues of love, marriage and commitment during emerging adulthood, a life phase which is increasingly prominent in urban India owing to its global factors. In-depth and open-ended questionnaires and interviews of 110 respondents, comprising 80 emerging adults, 40 women and...

The article seeks to create a space for the concept of ‘self as God’ in the discourse on self-psychology. It attempts to understand how the central concept of spiritual or divine self finds expression in the lives of ordinary Hindus and in their cultural practices. It is argued that...

The article suggests that self-refinement is a significant meta-concept in the Hindu world because it undergirds so much of Hindu thought and behaviour. Unlike purity/pollution or auspiciousness/inauspiciousness, self-refinement has not garnered the same degree of scholarly...