Moisés Salinas Fleitman () is a Mexican scholar of developmental and social psychology, a multi-cultural educator, a

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political

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, and the former

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and

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at ORT University Mexico.

Early life

Born in

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in 1966, Salinas was involved in Zionist activities from age 15 when he attended the Aluma Institute for Jewish Education, which was a program in Jewish education and leadership. He then served as a youth councilor in the Dor Hadash Zionist Organization in

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. Later (1985-6), he served as Secretary General of the movement that had about 150 members, and designed educational activities for youth aged 10–18. Salinas first came to

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in 1984-5 when he attended the Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz, the Institute for Youth Leaders Abroad in

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, which was a program in Zionist leadership and education. He returned to Israel in 1986 to study at the

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, earning his BA in Educational Psychology in 1991. While studying, he was an active participant of the

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(Hebrew: ) movement and a member of the

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party student wing.

Political activities

Salinas moved to Israel in 1986. In 1988, he became the youngest board member of the Magshimim Federation, and he coordinated several programs for the

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Youth and

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department for Latin America. In 2004, Salinas became one of 14 young Zionist leaders worldwide to be honored with the first Herzl Awards from the

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for his contributions to the Zionist movement. In about 2003, Salinas founded the Hartford chapter of the American Zionist Movement. He was profiled in the ''

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'' and selected as one of Connecticut's Jewish Movers and Shakers in 2005. He served as a board member of the national American Zionist federation, as well as a board member of

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USA and the Jewish Academic Network for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. He served as president of Meretz USA/Partners for Progressive Israel in 2010.

Academic activities

Salinas completed his Ph.D. in

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at the

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. He most recently served as associate professor of developmental and social psychology at

. He has published in a variety of publications, including the Journal of Black Psychology and Computers and Education. He has co-authored papers with psychologists

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, Joshua Aronson, and Richard Valencia. He has received awards from the American Education Research Association Grant in 2003, from the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning award in 2002, and a

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Teaching Leadership Award in 1997. In 2008 he was named Chief Diversity Officer at CCSU. In 2011, Salinas left CCSU and became Academic Dean at Hebraica University in Mexico City in August 2011. In 2015, he was named

at ORT University Mexico, the first institution in Latin America focused on Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and Leadership.

Selected publications

Books

*Salinas, M.F., & Salinas, J.I. (2013). Tu hijo en el centro: Una nueva visión educativa para la era digital our child at the center: a new educational vision for the digital era Mexico, D.F.: Random House. *Salinas, M.F. & Abu-Rabi (Eds.) (2010), Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Perspectives on the Peace Process. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press. *Salinas, M.F. (2007). Planting hatred, sowing pain: the psychology of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger. *Salinas, M.F. (2003). The politics of stereotype: Affirmative action and psychology. Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger. *Valencia, R. R., & Salinas, M. F. (2003). Cultural bias in intelligence tests: Is it a closed issue? In R. R. Valencia and L. Suzuki (Eds.), Intelligence Testing and Minority Students. New York: Sage Publications. *Aronson, J., Steele, C. M., Salinas, M. F., & Lustina, M. J. (2003). The effect of stereotype threat on the standardized test performance of college students. In E. Aronson (Ed.), Readings About the Social Animal. (8th ed., pp. 415–430). New York: Worth Publishers.

Other publications

*Aronson, J., Steele, C.M., Salinas, M.F., & Lustina, M.J. (2003). The effect of stereotype threat on the standardized test performance of college students. In E. Aronson (Ed.) Readings About the Social Animal. (9th ed., pp. 415–430). New York: Worth Publishers. *Salinas, M. F. (2005). Attitudes. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Development, Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage *Salinas, M. F., & Kane, S. E. (2005). Achievement, Long Term Learning and Lerner-Centered instruction in Higher Education. In P. Lemma (Ed.), Effective teaching: Systematic Reflections on the scholarship of teaching, 2. New Britain, CT: CCSU.Adam, M. (2004). Re-Acculturating Racial Stereotypes. ''Education Digest'', 70(1), 38-42. *Salinas, M.F.,(2006). From Dewey to Gates: A model to integrate pedagogical principles in the selection and use of instructional technology. ''Computers and Education.'' *Valencia, R.R, Villareal, B. & Salinas, M.F. (2002). Cultural bias in intelligence testing for Mexican Americans. In R. R. Valencia (Ed.) Chicano School Failure and Success, 2nd ed.. London: Falmer Press. *Valencia, R.R. & Salinas, M.F. (2000). Test Bias. In R. R. Valencia and L. Suzuki,(Eds.) Intelligence Testing and Minority Students. New York: Sage Publications. *Salinas, M.F. (1998). Stereotype threat: The role of effort withdrawal and apprehension on the intellectual underperformance of Mexican-Americans. ''Dissertation Abstracts International'', 59 (06), 1908A. (University Microfilms No. AAT98-38106) *Davis, C., Aronson, J. & Salinas, M.F. (2006). Black racial identity as a moderator of stereotype threat: Identity in context. Journal of Black Psychology, 32, 4. 399-418.

References

External links

Salinas page at Central Connecticut State University

Moises Salinas homepage

* ttp://www.hispanicoutlook.com/articleindex_14.htm Hispanic Outlook Magazine* ttp://salinas.socialpsychology.org/ Social Psychology Network {{DEFAULTSORT:Salinas, Moises 1966 births Living people People from Mexico City Mexican emigrants to Israel Mexican Jews Mexican psychologists Mexican Zionists Israeli Jews Israeli psychologists Israeli people of Mexican-Jewish descent Central Connecticut State University faculty