Asha Spivak
Graduate Student Researcher
Phone: (310) 206-2274
E-mail: aspivak@ucla.edu
Research interests
Asha is primarily interested in how
to best teach and encourage
empathy
and prosocial behavior in schools via teaching and aspects of
interaction and relation. Her research interests include engenderment
of altruistic action, prosocial action, trans-cultural understanding,
creativity and play, and violence prevention; and also associative
outcomes of and correlates with each of these facets of development.
Education
M.Ed., Instructional Leadership and
Curriculum Development,
Vanderbilt
University
B.A., major in Humanities and Arts, minor in Psychology, Hampshire
College
Current Projects
LA ExCELS