An Autoethnographic Mix Tape: Deconstructing Gender Identity Through Music That Has Meaning to Us

Harker, Anita

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“…Several authors have written about using music, poetry, autobiography, and novels as avenues to teach sex and gender in personality and abnormal psychology courses (Miller, 2016;selections by Carlson, Chrisler, and Mueller in Ware & Johnson, 2000). Harker (2016) described an exercise to deconstruct gender identity using self-created autobiographical "mix tapes" of songs that represent students' gender identity. This exercise works with other identities (e.g., any combination of religion, age, race) and is shared in a group "music festival.…”

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Teaching personality and abnormal psychology with inclusivity.

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McCloskey

Matacin

2019

Integrating Multiculturalism and Intersectionality Into the Psychology Curriculum: Strategies for Instructors.

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P sychology portrays human beings as unique, with different personality characteristics dimensionally categorized, such as introverted or extroverted, loud or quiet, optimistic or pessimistic, and thoughtful or impulsive. "Acceptable" characteristics are considered "optimal," whereas problematic characteristics are labeled "abnormal," demonstrating an etic bias. We challenge these assumptions by addressing societal and cultural influences on individuals (Lee, 2012) and the saliency of language-based descriptors within different groups (Cortina, Curtin, & Stewart, 2012). In this chapter, we each offer our experiences teaching personality and abnormal psychology, as well as pedagogical issues and challenges in doing so.

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