Teaching Community Psychology Decolonially: A Pedagogical Journey

IF 3.6 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Review of General Psychology Pub Date : 2020-11-25 DOI:10.1177/1089268020974588
M. Terre Blanche, Eduard Fourie, P. Segalo
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The decolonial impulse in psychology has manifested across a variety of domains, perhaps most notably psychological theory and approaches to research methodology. In this article, we focus on how decoloniality can reshape approaches to teaching and learning. We present a case study of how we recurriculated, from 1999 to 2020, three community psychology modules using a decolonial lens. We describe three phases in the development of community psychology teaching at a university in South Africa—“Little Oxford in the veld,” “Going walkabout,” and “New voices.” In each case, we detail the “course content,” our pedagogical approach, and how students responded, and try to identify what lessons can be learnt for a more explicitly decolonial mode of teaching and learning. We conclude by asserting that to foster decoloniality among students, we have to be cognizant of the ways in which they have for a long time been taught using Euro-centric lenses and frames of knowing and therefore the process of unlearning may be slow and somewhat painful. However, we see this as a necessary step toward decolonization, as epistemic colonization was and continues to be a violent project.
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社区心理学非殖民化教学:一段教学之旅
心理学中去殖民主义的冲动已经在许多领域表现出来,也许最明显的是心理学理论和研究方法。在这篇文章中,我们聚焦于非殖民化如何重塑教学方法。我们提出了一个案例研究,从1999年到2020年,我们如何使用非殖民化的镜头招募三个社区心理学模块。我们描述了南非一所大学社区心理学教学发展的三个阶段——“草原上的小牛津”、“漫步”和“新声音”。在每种情况下,我们都详细说明了“课程内容”,我们的教学方法,以及学生的反应,并试图确定可以从更明确的非殖民化教学模式中学到什么教训。最后,我们断言,为了促进学生的非殖民化,我们必须认识到,他们长期以来一直是用以欧洲为中心的视角和知识框架来接受教育的,因此,忘记的过程可能是缓慢的,而且有些痛苦。然而,我们认为这是走向非殖民化的必要步骤,因为认识上的殖民化过去是并将继续是一个暴力项目。
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Review of General Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: Review of General Psychology seeks to publish innovative theoretical, conceptual, or methodological articles that cross-cut the traditional subdisciplines of psychology. The journal contains articles that advance theory, evaluate and integrate research literatures, provide a new historical analysis, or discuss new methodological developments in psychology as a whole. Review of General Psychology is especially interested in articles that bridge gaps between subdisciplines in psychology as well as related fields or that focus on topics that transcend traditional subdisciplinary boundaries.
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