Incorporating Multiculturalism into Undergraduate Psychology Courses: Three Simple Active Learning Exercises
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-20-2009
Publication Title
Teaching of Psychology
Volume
33
Issue
2
First page number:
105
Last page number:
109
Abstract
Many scholars agree that educators must incorporate multiculturalism into the curriculum of all undergraduate psychology students. I designed 3 easy-to-use activities that reinforce why multicultural factors are critical to consider in psychology. Using intelligence testing as a platform, these activities highlight issues of language, cultural loading of test items, and cultural loading of assessment methods. Outcome data from participants in 2 large undergraduate introductory psychology classrooms (N = 301) indicated that students were significantly more knowledgeable about multiculturalism and believed multicultural factors to be more important after completing these activities.
Disciplines
Psychology
Language
English
Repository Citation
Warren, C. S.
(2009).
Incorporating Multiculturalism into Undergraduate Psychology Courses: Three Simple Active Learning Exercises.
Teaching of Psychology, 33(2),
105-109.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15328023top3302_5