Dr. Steven James
On systems, culture, and how people actually create change.
I write about the systems that shape human life — work, education, culture, and the institutions we move through — for people who want to understand them well enough to create real change. What you do with that understanding is up to you, but if you want to journey together, there is room for you aboard.
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The Centrality of the Humanistic Moral Compass
In his article, “Going-against-the-grainers: If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention?” Dane Leigh Gogoshin makes the argument that the moral ecology perspective of moral development is not...
Disoriented on Purpose
I am inspired to agreement with Hunter here, and would like to put some formalized structure to what he is describing. What he is describing is not a phenomenon restricted to the bounds of Literature, but a general requirement of any good educator and mentor. ...
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Dr. Steven James
Scholar. Educator. Systems Thinker.
Steven James writes at the intersection of psychology, culture, and systems thinking — not to hand you conclusions, but to give you the tools to reach your own.
Steven James holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where his research demonstrated that self-transcendence, the felt sense of genuine connection to humanity and the world, can actually be taught and integrated.