Teaching A Psychology Of People
Resources for Gender and Sociocultural Awareness

Teaching A Psychology Of People
Resources for Gender and Sociocultural Awareness

Teaching A Psychology Of People
Resources for Gender and Sociocultural Awareness

Our original interests in the integration of diversity into the psychology curricu- lum developed along converging paths. As new teachers of psychology, we both discovered that our widely-used textbooks contained little or no scholarship on women or gender, ethnicity, race, or sociocultural issues. We also recognized the isolation and institutional fragility of the single psychology of women course at each of our respective institutions. In spite of this, we also found many students eager to learn about these topics and extremely supportive of us as teachers and of our efforts to bring this information to them in the classroom.
At the same time, some students were concerned that perhaps what they had learned wasn’t real psychology, because it was different from what they had learned in other classes. When we discussed this problem with colleagues, we found that many seemed willing-some even eager-to include new scholarship in their classes but were busy just trying to keep up with their own fields. Clearly, a better exchange of resources and ideas was needed.

George W.Albee