Critical Psychology Teaching Materials Syllabi - Readings - Suggestions

• We Teach, Too
• Course Syllabi & Materials
• Reading Lists
• Student Perspectives
• Teaching-Related Web Links

Yes, We Teach, Too

Many RadPsyNet members teach psychology, generally in mainstream institutions.

How do we go about doing that? What works? What doesn't?

• How do we teach courses in "Critical Psychology"? Do such courses exist?
  • If you don't teach such a course, how would you design one?
• How do we incorporate radical/critical content in mainstream courses?
  • How might specific readings or assignments raise critical issues?

How do our students react to our teaching?

And radical students: How do you deal with mainstream teachers?

Does being a radical in academe affect what we do in the classroom? Should it?

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Course Syllabi & Materials

Located Here

• The Stubborn Particulars of Social Psychology: Essays on the Research Process (Fran Cherry's complete book)
• Methods, Design, & Analysis (R. A. Josephs)
• Psychology & Education (John Morss)
• Empowerment Theory & Practice (Lorraine M. Gutierrez)
• Critical Psychology: An Introduction (Dennis Fox & Isaac Prilleltensky)
• Critical Psychology Conceptual Foundations MSc Reading Pack (Ian Parker)
• Perceptions of Mental Illness (Phil Brown)
• Qualitative Methods: Use of Focus Groups to Study Racial/Ethnic Experiences on Campus Student Assignment (Larry Osborne)

Links Off-site

• Psychology and Society in Critical Perspective (Dennis Fox - Seminar using critical psychology and anarchist insights)
• Advanced Social Psychology (Arnie Kahn--Graduate course incorporates critical readings)
• Developmental Psychology (Simon Ungar--Two two hour lectures incorperating critical perspectives in undergraduate course)
• Multicultural, Multilingual Organizing (Lorraine M. Gutierrez)
• Prejudice and Intergroup Relations: The SPSSI Curriculum Collection (syllabi, assignments, activities, video & reading lists. For list of available materials & directions on how to get specific files, send blank e-mail message to spssi_pr@field.uor.edu or contact Susan Goldstein)

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Other Reading Lists

• Community Psychology Reading List (Clifford O'Donnell & Jim Dalton)
• References on Epistemological Assumptions (Rhoda Unger)
• Psychological Self-Help (Clay Tucker-Ladd) (complete online book with many references; sections include moral values, developing a philosophy of life, etc. "I would be glad to supply a detailed syllabus and provide some ongoing consultation (by email) to anyone developing a radical applied course, such as "Psychology Applied to Personal Adjustment.")
• RadPsyNet Members' Reading Suggestions (compiled from many sources)
• East Side Institute Bibliography - Part I Primary Bibliography ("This bibliography includes books, chapters, articles and essays by faculty of the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy and the Center for Developmental Learning.")
• East Side Institute Bibliography - Part II Reference Bibliography ("the major writings that have influenced the cultural, performatory social therapeutic approach. Included are (1) writings by and about the most influential thinkers (Vygotsky, Wittgenstein, Marx, Gergen, etc. (2) discussions within critical and postmodern intellectual movements, including various identity psychologies, social constructionism, narrative therapy, and philosophical counseling; and (3) other miscellaneous classics.")
• Reading Suggestions for the Curious Social Psychology Student (and Others) (Dennis Fox) (Psychology & the Status Quo (general); Education, Training, Research, & Publication; Human Nature, Human Origins, & Personality; Family, Sex Roles, Feminism, Developmental Psychology; Mental Disorder, Disability, & the Therapeutic State; Societal Trends (Technology, Community, Individualism, Inequality, Corporations, more); Anarchism; Tragedy of the Commons; Environment, Communalism, & Utopia; and Power, Oppression, Law, & Social Change.)
• Bibliographies and Other Publications Relating to Activism and Psychology (Rachelle Thibodeau) ("on-line venues for psychologist-activists to disseminate their ideas and bibliographies on psychology and activism.")

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Student Perspectives

• New Member Questions (John Lawrence, 1994)
• Radicalizing Undergraduate Education (Cameron Norman, undergraduate student, 1996)
• A Radical Approach to Psychology and Public Policy (Cameron Norman, graduate student, 1998)

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Also on RadPsyNet

• RadPsyNet Documents make great supplemental readings
• Notices: Degree programs, conference announcements, seminars, etc.
• Books Page books by members and book reviews
• Links to radical/critical psychology websites

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Teaching-Related Web Links

• Cafe Progressive's Radical Teacher's Table
• Rethinking Schools
• Jay's List of Leftist Academic Conferences, Syllabi, etc.
• Jay's List of Student Activism Links
• Center for Campus Organizing
  • "Uncovering the Right on Campus: A Guide to Resisting Conservative Attacks on Equality and Social Justice" (new CCO book!)
• Campus Organizing Guide (Rick Cowan)
• Education Policy Analysis Archives (electronic journal; covers teaching, tenure, student ratings, etc.)
• Radical Parenting (includes links to progressive education sites)
• Fox's reading suggestions (books on education, training, research, & publication)
• Critical Pedagogy Discussion List (To subscribe: email to listserv@vm1.mcgill.ca Leave subject line blank. In body of message write subscribe critped Lastname Firstname Contact: Sharon Todd)