General discussions

We're interested in the views of UK-based psychology educators who teach on BPS accredited programmes for a short survey about your "psychological literacy" practice. It takes no longer than 10 minutes to complete and will help us to understand the current state of psychology pedagogy in the UK. Please share!

https://leedspsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3EFgL2j1DOiBYdU

Hi everyone,

here I post the start for a collection of commented list of literature and web resources. Please share your favorite resources (together with a short comment on how you recommend using it).

In the following, some examples of what the literature offers on war and violent conflict as a topic in teaching of psychology are briefly reviewed to help initiate discussion and material collection in this forum

Relate current events to topics covered

Surveying students Huston and Michelle DiPietro (2007) document that students are irritated when teachers go on with class without mentioning the event. Teaching on the day something terrible happened, diverse spontaneous actions seemed welcome.

Gurstelle et al. (2004) as well as Nelson and Christie (1995) provide brief hints (usually one paragraph per issue) how current events/permanent threats of war/terrorism can be related to different domains in psychology programs such as: Biological bases of behavior, Consciousness,…

This is short welcome message to introduce the new discussion forum for ESPLAT. This space is for members to initiate and contribute to discussions on topics of relevance to teaching and learning in psychology. As always for such forums, please use them respectfully and with consideration. We know you will, of course, but its just as well to be clear. We really don't want to have to intervene.

Start a new thread, respond to others, ask your fellow members for ideas, or share information that might be of interest. We hope that this will become a useful resource for members.

Enjoy!

The ESPLAT committee 🤓