Power in the Classroom

In this, the final episode in our series on teaching in context, we speak with Chris Head about the role of context in teaching narrative psychology.

This episode continues the series previewing our upcoming apa symposium on teaching contextually. Today we're talking with Erin Thrift about how she draws upon historical and theoretical context in teaching courses on career counseling. [note: there are a few brief moments of zoom lag in this recording; we left these in so the listener can hear where and why they occurr.]

This episode kicks off a series related to a symposium we will be chairing at the APA Convention this summer. The symposium explores the pedagogical value of presenting psychological knowledge in the social and historical context in which it was produced. The symposium was partly inspired by our previous episode with Donna Tafreshi, who will be on the panel, and upcoming episodes will feature each of the presenters. Today's episode is a conversation with Joe Ostenson about an assignment he is developing for his class on the psychology of marriage.

In this episode, we investigate the possible benefits of teaching in a way that emphasizes the social and historical context of the content in our courses. This episode includes some editing for time.

In this episode, we’re joined by Donna Tafreshi to discuss the possibilities and challenges in teaching quantitative methods and measurement as interpretive practices.

In this episode, we share excerpts from a conversation the three of us, Brady Wiggins, Josh Clegg, and Joe Ostenson, recently had about remote teaching.

In this episode, we speak with our guest, Michelle Merwin, about power in the classroom, and how her study of existentialist Rollo May's writings on power has transformed her teaching.

In this segment, we discuss with our guest, Karyna Pryiomka, the challenges she is facing and the solutions she is discovering as she attempts to convert her courses to a distance format.

In this segment, guests Michael Matthews and Stephen Yanchar, join us to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities related to moving our courses to online formats in response to the threat of Corona Virus.

In this inaugural episode, we discuss the podcast (why we started it, what we hope to accomplish, etc.), what we mean by critical teaching, and preview the "Hacking Methods Instruction" special programming for the upcoming 2020 Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.