Meeting Students Where They Are: Analysis of Current Events in a Psychology of Women Course

Autor/in	Fuehrer, Ann
Titel	Meeting Students Where They Are: Analysis of Current Events in a Psychology of Women Course
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 35 (2011) 3, S.479-482 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1177/0361684311406090
Schlagwörter	Feminism; Current Events; Females; Behavioral Objectives; Social Change; Psychology; Mass Media; Outcomes of Education; Power Structure; Socialization; Assignments; Undergraduate Students; Course Descriptions + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Feminismus; Aktualität; Weibliches Geschlecht; Sozialer Wandel; Psychologie; Massenmedien; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung; Kursstrukturplan
Abstract	A social change agenda is central in feminist psychology. In creating learning outcomes for a psychology of women course, instructors might wish to facilitate processes that have the potential to move individuals from acceptance of a status quo toward various degrees of feminist thinking. This agenda could include endorsing social constructionist approaches, which introduce dynamics of representation, power, and hierarchy as well as promote socialization and contextual explanations. Assignments can provide the opportunity for students to coauthor knowledge. One learning objective the author has for students in her undergraduate psychology of women course is to apply the concepts from the course to understanding their own, or a specific woman's, experiences as a gendered person. To assess students' learning relevant to women's experiences, one assignment asks each student to identify a story from current media that is relevant to their experiences in her class. This assignment asks students to draw on their consumption of mass media and knowledge of current events in the public domain to illustrate their emerging understanding of feminist psychology. Providing such opportunities to students allows for meeting students where they are, while promoting the usefulness of principles of feminist psychology. This assignment also focuses assessment in a way that could guide future practice. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10