A critical review of practices of inclusion and exclusion in the psychology curriculum in higher education

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dc.contributor.authorCarolissen, Ronelle
dc.contributor.authorShefer, Tamara
dc.contributor.authorSmit, Estian
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-15T13:26:04Z
dc.date.available2017-02-15T13:26:04Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractMuch of South African psychology has pursued the national imperative of critical engagement and reconstruction since 1994, in spite of collusion with Apartheid ideologies before 1994. Critical psychologists who mobilised against apartheid were also active post-1994 in reshaping the discipline and profession. Many of these efforts were directed towards curriculum development to attempt to challenge the dominance of western and northern scholarship in psychology by developing multiple texts that represented local experiences and challenged traditional asocial and ahistorical thinking in psychology. This paper presents critical thoughts on contemporary psychology in higher education, with a particular focus on progress made in curriculum transformation and demographic representativity, to interrogate the extent to which the profession continues to reproduce existing patterns of privilege and inclusion/exclusion. We suggest that considering curriculum as discourse which acts to reproduce larger power relations in society, may be a useful approach to think about inclusion and transformation of the curriculum in psychology.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHETen_US
dc.identifier.citationCarolissen, R. et al. (2015). A critical review of practices of inclusion and exclusion in the psychology curriculum in higher education. PINS, 49: 7 - 2.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1015-6046
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2530
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-8708/2015/n49a2
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherPsychology in Societyen_US
dc.rightsArticles published in PINS are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, BY-SA. This is the final publisher's version available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-8708/2015/n49a2
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.subjectCurriculum transformationen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectInclusionen_US
dc.titleA critical review of practices of inclusion and exclusion in the psychology curriculum in higher educationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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