Main description:

This edited volume may be the 'definitive text' on methods and content in teaching psychology from an international and critical perspective. Chapters from internationally renowned contributors working clinically, educationally and in the community with a range of client groups, outline critical teaching by and for professionals and service recipients.

This timely book offers a unique, research-based and philosophically coherent approach to teaching psychology including teaching methods, the lecture content of radical approaches to modern psychology and debates as to whether the aim of teaching is to liberate or control. Themes include the nature of pedagogy, the importance of teaching and learning style, the relevance of context and content and the ways in which traditional teaching forms a part of the disciplinary rather than critical project.

Teaching Critical Psychology offers guidance in teaching pupils, students, peers and those on academic programmes at under-graduate and post-graduate level.

Contents:

Contents

Preface: On critical pedagogy Peter McLaren

Chapter One: Teaching psychology critically David Fryer & Rachael Fox

Chapter Two: Ten suggestions for critical teaching John Cromby

Chapter Three: Towards coherence in teaching critical Psy Craig Newnes

Chapter Four: Teaching disability, teaching critical disability studies Dan Goodley, Katherine Runswick-Cole and Michael Miller

Chapter Five: Fear and loathing in the education system Robbie Piper

Chapter Six: What can teachers of critical and community psychology learn from their learners? Olivia Fakoussa, Gemma Budge, Mandeep Singh Kallu, Annie Mitchell and Rachel Purtell

Chapter Seven: Teaching indigenous psychology: A conscientisation, de-colonisation, and psychological literacy approach to curriculum Pat Dudgeon, Dawn Darlaston-Jones, & Abigail Bray

Chapter Eight: Psy and the law: The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights' public education approach Jim Gottstein

Chapter Nine: Teaching withdrawal of antipsychotics and antidepressants to professionals and recipients Peter Lehmann

Chapter Ten: Human rights and critical psychology Beth Greenhill & Laura Golding

Chapter Eleven: Children's experiences of domestic violence: A teaching and training challenge Jane Callaghan, Lisa Fellin & Joanne Alexander

Chapter Twelve: Supervision: A principles based approach Sara Tai

Chapter Thirteen: Training that domesticates or education that liberates? Tensions and dilemmas related to teaching critical psychology in the context of UK clinical psychology training Anne Cooke

Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index