Scott Seider
Buehler Faculty Fellow, Professor
Biography
Scott Seider is an applied developmental psychologist whose research focuses on how parents and educators can help young people to thrive as individuals and contribute to building a better world. In one stream of research, Dr. Seider investigates how parents in mixed race and mixed faith families share their cultural and religious traditions with their children. In a second stream of research Dr. Seider explores how educators nurture their students' development of the civic skills, character strengths, and critical consciousness necessary to analyze and challenge injustice. He is the co-author of numerous articles and books including Educating for Justice (2025), Character Compass 2nd edition (2025), and Schooling for Critical Consciousness (2020). At Boston College, Dr. Seider teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focused on adolescent development, transformative teaching and learning, qualitative research methods, and social oppression and transformation. He previously worked as an English teacher in the Boston Public Schools and as a teacher educator at Boston University. Dr. Seider also serves on advisory boards for a number of youth-serving organizations including the Center for Parent and Teen Communication, EL Education, and the Journal of Adolescent Research .
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Courses taught
- APSY2041 Adolescent Development
- APSY2243 Social Oppression and Transformation
- APSY4101 Readings and Research in Counseling and Developmental Psychology
- APSY7101 Readings and Research in Counseling and Developmental Psychology
- APSY7419 Applied Adolescent Development
- APSY9911 Doctoral Continuation
- APSY9988 Dissertation Direction
- EDUC9851 Qualitative Research Methods
- FORM2050 Transformative Teaching and Learning