Professor Junlei Li, is Saul Zaentz Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Development ; Faculty co-Chair, Human Development and Education program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
He confided in this Harvard Gazette article in December 2023 that he was trained to find and fix what is wrong in the fields of human development. He said that “The Power of the Positive Deviance Approach book ..radically changed how I approach my field- it taught me to honor the expertise and wisdom of those who are already on the front lines of any difficult work. It led me to learn from villagers who fostered children with severe disabilities, childcare providers in low-income communities, and social workers in youth group homes”.
Read his observations here.