Assistant Professor
Lisa Comparini
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- School: Texas A&M University
- Campus: Corpus Christi
- Department: Psychology
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Location:
Bay Hall 317
, TX - Dates at Texas A&M University: May 2009 - April 2020
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Awful
Professor Comparini is awful. The whole class complained about the amount of reading and homework. It will take three hours to finish a chapter. It's two chapters per week and she didn't care about it. There were only two people who barely passed her second exam with 71 and 73. Her only response with this result is, for us to try to do better on the next one. This is the only class I've dropped ever. I will not recommend her to other students.
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Would take again: Yes
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Awesome
Professor Comparini's class is easy and engaging. If you put in an effort she will recognize it. She has PowerPoint as a guide for what you should focus on. If you read the assigned chapters, you'll be fine as well. She's by far one of the best professors I have ever had at Texas A&M University.
Biography
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi - Psychology
Lisa Comparini is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi. She teaches courses in Developmental Psychology at both undergraduate and graduate levels, Cross-Cultural Psychology, History and Systems of Psychology, and other specialized courses on language development. Her research, which involves both undergraduate and graduate students, centers on processes of language socialization from an interdisciplinary perspective, weaving together work from developmental psychology, linguistic anthropology, sociology, and cultural psychology. She takes a sociocultural approach to development, conceptualizing development as a process that takes place within communities of practice and is particularly interested in how young children develop perspective-taking skills through social interactions with one another, with their parents, teachers, and significant others.
Dr. Comparini is interested in the interface between language, identity and culture, all from a developmental perspective. Earlier work done with Mexican heritage preschoolers and their mothers highlights ways in which language is a form of social action through which children learn important social interactive skills related to power and social positioning that are relevant to their cultural context. A related area of interest is in language and perspective taking among preschool peers. The focus here is on children’s spontaneous cooperative and competitive peer interactions as sites for the development of social perspective-taking. A third area of interest is in learning as taking place within communities of practice. Here the emphasis is on learning as a process of identity development that includes the increasingly effective and collaborative use of discipline appropriate tools (e.g. objects, discourses) by novices and experts and how the development of such practices is meaningful in relation to certain ideals or future outcomes, even when those futures are themselves being re-envisioned.
Teaching Interests: Developmental Psychology, History & Systems of psychology, Cross-cultural Psychology, Language Development
Experience
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Assistant Professor
Lisa worked at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi as a Assistant Professor
Education
Clark University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Developmental and Child Psychology
Austin College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Psychology
Arts magnet at Booker T Washington
High School
Music
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