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Ryan Davis and Isabella Graham

03.31.2018

EDUC 701

Andrew Coppens

Wikipedia Prospectus: Identity and self concept.

We want to add to the “self-concept” page on wikipedia using Markus and Kitayama’s articles Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation (1991) and Cultures and Selves: A Cycle of Mutual Constitution (2010). The ‘Cultural differences’ section of the self-concept page is severely lacking. Being that it is only two small paragraphs, the page would benefit from some more cultural insight and examples from a few more scientific article.

As is, the section merely addresses the small dichotomy of independent versus collective community perspectives. The culture gap on this page is the misrepresentation that cultures are either independent or interdependent. This is a huge gap, but we aim to make it a little smaller by adding another lense for readers to looks through and see that cultural differences go much further than being one way or another, as does that mentality surrounding them. We would like to contribute a paragraph on stereotype threat and its effect on the idea of the self as a subsection to this ‘cultural differences’ section. The contribution of this information on stereotypes to the ‘cultural differences’ section is a way to offer a more extensive overview on how culture and perceptions impact people.

Since there exists no educational section on the page of “self-concept”, we hope to offer an educational perspective as well. This section would pull from the aforementioned ideas about independent self and interdependent self that is already present on the page and relate it to differences in education that are mentioned in Markus and Kitayama’s 1991 article.