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About James Wertsch
- James V.
- Wertsch (born May 16, 1947) is the vice chancellor for international relations, Marshall S.
- Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences, and director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at Washington University in St.
- Louis.
- He is an author and professor of sociocultural anthropology.He has an A.B.
- in Psychology from University of Illinois, Urbana, an M.A.T.
- in Education from Northwestern University and a Ph.D.
- in Educational Psychology from University of Chicago.Contributing to the anthology Our American Story (2019), Wertsch addressed the possibility of a shared American narrative and focused on mental habits allowing narratives to resonate with the populace.
- He wrote, "These habits are general and flexible, if not protean, but at the same time, they are sufficiently well formed to bind a national community together.
- They can be used to make sense of a wide array of events, but they also are typically anchored in a paricular prototypical event that enjoys privileged status for a national community."
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