Publisher Description

Culture across the Curriculum provides a useful handbook for psychology teachers in the major subfields of the discipline. From introductory psychology to the foundations in such areas as social psychology, statistics, research methods, memory, cognition, personality, and development, to such specialized courses as language, sexual minorities, and peace psychology, there is something here for virtually every teacher of psychology. In addition to discussions of the rationale for inclusion of cultural context in their areas of specialization, these experienced teachers also offer advice and ideas for teaching exercises and activities to support the teaching of a psychology of all people.

Author Biography

Kenneth D. Keith is Professor Emeritus of Psychological Sciences at the University of San Diego, and editor of the Cambridge University Press series Elements of Psychology and Culture. He is author or editor of a dozen books and more than 150 book chapters and articles, including The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2013), Cross-Cultural Psychology: Contemporary Themes and Perspectives (2010), and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Quality of Life (2002). Keith is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science, as well as a member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and for service to people with intellectual disabilities.

Table of Contents

Foreword David Matsumoto; Preface; Prologue: a psychology of all people Kenneth D. Keith; Part I. Basic Concepts: 1. Foundation and parameters of a contextualized global psychology education Michael J. Stevens, Viviane de Castro Pecanha and Alyssa Benedict; 2. Cultural competence for teachers and students Leonie Elphinstone; Part II. Teaching Across the Psychology Curriculum; Section 1. In the Beginning: 3. Culture and introductory psychology Kenneth D. Keith; 4. History of psychology in cultural context Kenneth D. Keith; Section 2. Research and Statistics: 5. Why culture matters in teaching statistics Susan A. Nolan and Andrew Simon; 6. Approaches to culture-oriented research and teaching Carl Martin Allwood; 7. Teaching psychological measurement: taking into account cross-cultural comparability and cultural sensitivity Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Diana Boer and Katja Hanke; Section 3. Biological Connections: 8. Incorporating culture into biological psychology courses Afshin Gharib; 9. Sensation and perception: why culture matters William L. Phillips; Section 4. Development: 10. Teaching child development from a cross-cultural perspective Adriana Molitor; 11. Teaching adolescent development from an international and cultural perspective Judith L. Gibbons and Katelyn Poelker; Section 5. Cognition: 12. Where tides collide: integrating culture in teaching cognitive psychology Aaron Richmond; 13. Integration of culture in the teaching of memory Qi Wang; 14. Bringing life to educational psychology through cross-cultural experiences Noriyuki Inoue; 15. Teaching about language by integrating culture David Kreiner; Section 6. Social Psychology: 16. Culture and social behavior Richard L. Miller and Tyler Collette; 17. Teaching about cultural differences in the correspondence bias Anne Koenig and Kristy Dean; 18 Ethnocentrism: our window on the world Kenneth D. Keith; 19. Cross-cultural attitudes toward sexual minorities Mary E. Kite, LaCount J. Togans and Kim A. Case; 20. Peace psychology: a gateway and path to culture and diversity Linda M. Woolf and Michael R. Hulsizer; Section 7. Health and Well-Being: 21. Health psychology Regan A. R. Gurung; 22. Well-being Chu Kim-Prieto and Jaclyn Kukoff; Section 8. Personality, Disability, and Disorders: 23. Cultural construction of personality: helping students think globally Peter J. Giordano; 24. Integration of culture in teaching about disability Elias Mpofu, James Athanasou, Tinashe Dune, Debra Harley, Patrick Devlieger and Chandra Donnell Carey; 25. Cultural issues in the teaching of psychological disorders Josephine C. H. Tan; 26. Culture-infused training in clinical psychology Junko Tanaka-Matsumi; Epilogue: the band plays on Kenneth D. Keith; Index.

Review

'In this fascinating book, Keith and contributors face one of the most enduring challenges in teaching psychology: how to incorporate culture across the psychology curriculum? The result is a rich, multi-layered approach to cultural differences and their impact upon traditional psychological topics. A must-read for psychology teachers and students!' Saulo de Freitas Araujo, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
'While making a compelling argument for a culturally inclusive curriculum, this volume offers clear explanations and illustrations of key research findings on the role of culture within multiple psychology subfields, provides a wealth of resources and activities for making these findings come alive in the classroom, and equips instructors with the tools they need to identify additional opportunities for infusing a global perspective into their own courses.' Susan B. Goldstein, University of Redlands, California
'This edited collection provides an invaluable resource for psychology educators wishing to decolonise the psychology curriculum, and to refresh their teaching. It is a timely, and potentially transformative, addition to every psychology teacher's bookshelf, that offers practical tools to facilitate the development of global citizenship in psychology students.' Julie Hulme, The Psychologist

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Advance praise: 'While making a compelling argument for a culturally inclusive curriculum, this volume offers clear explanations and illustrations of key research findings on the role of culture within multiple psychology subfields, provides a wealth of resources and activities for making these findings come alive in the classroom, and equips instructors with the tools they need to identify additional opportunities for infusing a global perspective into their own courses.' Susan B. Goldstein, University of Redlands, California

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This book will be useful to teachers of psychology across a broad range of courses in the various subfields of the discipline. It provides both content and teaching ideas and aids to support the integration of cultural and cross-cultural information in the teaching of mainstream psychology courses.

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This book will be useful to teachers of psychology across a broad range of courses in the various subfields of the discipline. It provides both content and teaching ideas and aids to support the integration of cultural and cross-cultural information in the teaching of mainstream psychology courses.

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