Carol Diane Lee (née Easton, also Safisha Madhubuti)[1][2] is an American professor, educational researcher, school director and author.
[12] Lee is the author of Culture, Literacy and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind[13] and Signifying As a Scaffold for Literary Interpretation: The Pedagogical Implications of an African American Discourse Genre.
[19] Around that time, she became socially active in the Black Arts Movement, and it was then she met and eventually married Haki Madhubuti (born Don L. Lee).
Cultural modeling evolved from the ideas of cultural-historical psychology, originally propagated by Lev Vygotsky, Alexander Luria, and Aleksei N. Leontiev in the early 20th century.
In one of its earliest experimental applications, Lee used cultural modeling to help students, initially described as low-skilled and unmotivated, become enthusiastic readers capable of analyzing critical novels by African-American writers, such as "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.