Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Classroom Hegemony

The past year has challenged educators in all directions, from switching courses to an online format overnight to addressing student needs within and outside the classroom, and many external factors have extensively affected student performance and engagement. In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic and a myriad other sociopolitical movements highlight the need for faculty to go beyond educating and start building deeper connections with students. This article provides a rationale for providing an intentionally supportive classroom environment for public health students and outlines the benefits not only to the students but also to the faculty and institution. Furthermore, this article identifies necessary boundaries to caring, including setting appropriate limits and maintaining professional student–educator relationships. Creating an inclusive and supportive learning environment is important not only for training future health professionals but also for cultivating a culture of caring among the profession.

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“…Creating space for students to say their name and share pronouns reduces errors and supports inclusivity (Wentling, 2016).…”

Section: Collaborating With Students To Build Course Contentmentioning

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Developing a Culture of Caring in Classrooms: Best Practices During a Global Pandemic and Beyond

Krüger

Godley

Heavey

2021

Pedagogy in Health Promotion

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“…Because students process new information and tolerate openness and selfexploration differently (e.g., Caviness, Giuffre, & Wasley-Valdez, 2016;Rios, Stewart, & Winter, 2010), I offer them a variety of ways to demonstrate individualized strengths: (a) writing a summary (no more than 30 words) capturing each main point in every reading assignment; (b) leading a class discussion individually and in small groups (e.g., Wentling, 2016) on a chosen theorist, using PowerPoint-like materials; (c) participating in an open critique of each theorist during student-led discussions (e.g., Burke & Trumpy, 2016); and (d) writing a final paper that addresses one contemporary controversy in personality research and theory through a social constructivist lens.…”

Section: Course Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching personality and abnormal psychology with inclusivity.

Cheng

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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Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Classroom Hegemony

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Developing a Culture of Caring in Classrooms: Best Practices During a Global Pandemic and Beyond

Developing a Culture of Caring in Classrooms: Best Practices During a Global Pandemic and Beyond

Teaching personality and abnormal psychology with inclusivity.

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