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Prologue

A Psychology of All People

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2018

Kenneth D. Keith

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Kenneth D. Keith

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The teaching of Western psychology education has for too long focused on a worldview based on findings derived largely from European American students. Students must learn to question the conclusions of a psychology based on the behavior of a small segment of the world's population. This chapter makes the case for teaching a psychology of all people, based not on stand-alone courses in cultural or cross-cultural psychology, but upon integration of cultural concepts across the curriculum. This requires shifts in our understanding of both course content and the methodology of teaching about cultural content.

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Information: Culture across the Curriculum
A Psychology Teacher's Handbook
, pp. 1 - 10

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316996706.003 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2018

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