{"title":"Starting university during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"M. Turu, T. V. Rossum, Nicole Gridley","doi":"10.3167/latiss.2023.160105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2023.160105","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In early 2020, universities across the world ceased face-to-face teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article explores the experiences of first-year UK university students during this time. Four main themes were identified in the data. Regarding course delivery, students valued the flexibility of blended learning, which involved attending some live sessions while working on others in their own time. Student interaction was mentioned to be critical for learning and how the use of webcams and breakout rooms can facilitate or hinder it. Regarding staff, continuous communication, availability and online drop-ins were highly valued and had a positive impact on satisfaction. Finally, while students benefitted from a coherent use of online tools provided by the university, they also valued the flexibility of using less-regulated tools, including social media.","PeriodicalId":45061,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Learning and Teaching-PLAT","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72697856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phoebe Lin, Lynne N. Kennette, Lisa R. Van Havermaet
{"title":"Encouraging white allyship in anti-racism by decentring whiteness","authors":"Phoebe Lin, Lynne N. Kennette, Lisa R. Van Havermaet","doi":"10.3167/latiss.2023.160103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2023.160103","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Racism in higher education continues to harm Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) students, so white faculty need to be good allies in anti-racism by decentring whiteness to better support BIPOC individuals. To increase self-awareness, white faculty should reflect on how they benefit from white privilege and then use this privilege to better support BIPOC students at both the interpersonal and institutional level, to centre BIPOC voices, to advocate for social justice, to condemn racism privately and publicly, to create teachable moments to better inform white students on the harms of prejudice and to intervene if BIPOC students are discriminated against. By being good allies, white faculty can show other white individuals how to use one's privilege to take action in anti-racism.","PeriodicalId":45061,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Learning and Teaching-PLAT","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77425668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Kraybill, Seungyeon Lee, Fanli Jia, Leslie Berntsen, Kit W. Cho
{"title":"Abstracts of recent articles published in Teaching of Psychology","authors":"J. Kraybill, Seungyeon Lee, Fanli Jia, Leslie Berntsen, Kit W. Cho","doi":"10.1177/14757257221144517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14757257221144517","url":null,"abstract":"Background","PeriodicalId":45061,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Learning and Teaching-PLAT","volume":"22 1","pages":"114 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46023918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maya C. Rose, Jessica E. Brodsky, Elizabeth S. Che, P. J. Brooks
{"title":"Abstracts of recent articles published in Teaching of Psychology","authors":"Maya C. Rose, Jessica E. Brodsky, Elizabeth S. Che, P. J. Brooks","doi":"10.1177/14757257221144516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14757257221144516","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Introductory Psychology students rarely learn about unethical biomedical research outside the Tuskegee syphilis study, but these practices were widespread in U.S. public health research (e.g., at the Willowbrook State School researchers infected children with disabilities with hepatitis). Objectives: Replicate and extend Grose-Fifer ’ s research ethics activity by evalu-ating if an online homework and in-class role-play increased awareness of unethical research and abuses at Tuskegee (replication) and Willowbrook (extension) and subsequent changes in human subjects protections. Method: As homework, students read about the studies and wrote statements from perspectives of individuals involved. In class, students read their statements and dis-cussed how outrage led to research conduct regulations. Online pre/posttests asked students why it was important to learn about both studies. Results: At posttest, students were more aware of unethical research at Willowbrook and that Tuskegee led to changes in human subjects protections. Students who completed the role-play activity were less likely to mention abuses for Tuskegee than students who did not participate. Conclusion: We were partially successful in rep-licating and extending Grose-Fifer. Teaching Implications: Research ethics instruction should draw attention to historical precedents and how public outrage and social activism led to increased protections for research participants.","PeriodicalId":45061,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Learning and Teaching-PLAT","volume":"22 1","pages":"107 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43459451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial PLAT 22(1) 2023","authors":"Birgit Spinath, Zoe Maj Sander","doi":"10.1177/14757257221150587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14757257221150587","url":null,"abstract":"At the time of publication of this PLAT issue, the onset of the pandemic was more than three years ago. We have learned to live with the coronavirus in a new normal, but the effects of the pandemic continue to be felt. This also applies to the teaching and learning of psychology. Even though we as researchers and instructors greatly appreciate meeting our students face-to-face in the lecture hall and the seminar room again, the past two years leave us with important experiences and impulses. The joint management of this crisis also revealed valuable opportunities for professional networking, interdisciplinary exchange, and accelerated digitalization in education. Once again, this issue of PLAT features articles that explore new digital tools and teaching methods to successfully adapt teaching and learning of psychology to a more digitalized future. In general, we are facing major challenges in many areas of life right now. In a time of multiple crises and rapid changes, our professional psychological expertise is needed more than ever. Therefore, it is even more important that we as instructors constantly strive to further develop teaching and learning and adapt to these changes.","PeriodicalId":45061,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Learning and Teaching-PLAT","volume":"22 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44906979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs About Neuroscience and Education—Do Freshmen and Advanced Students Differ in Their Ability to Identify Myths?","authors":"Ines Deibl, J. Zumbach","doi":"10.1177/14757257221146649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14757257221146649","url":null,"abstract":"Addressing and creating awareness on the topic of neuromyths in educational sciences has increased in recent years. We know very little about how widespread the belief in neuromyths is among pre-service teacher students and whether this belief affects their subsequent approach to teaching and consequently possibly also the performance of their students. The aim of the study was to analyze students’ belief in neuromyths, focusing on differences between freshmen (N = 82) and advanced students (N = 74) studying in pre-service teacher education. Using a questionnaire approach, students had to judge whether given statements were objectively wrong (i.e., “Neuromyths”) or objectively correct (i.e., “Neurofacts”). They could also choose the option “I don’t know”. For each statement, we asked students to indicate how self-confident they were about their answer. Furthermore, students’ self-assessment of their need for cognition and ability-related academic self-concept was measured. Results reveal no significant difference between freshmen and advanced students for identifying the myths correctly, but a significant difference for identifying the facts correctly, showing that freshmen identified slightly more facts correctly than advanced students. Self-confidence plays an important role here, as we see that within the master students, students with high self-confidence values identified more facts correctly.","PeriodicalId":45061,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Learning and Teaching-PLAT","volume":"22 1","pages":"74 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47071403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Alemu, Mei Qu, Zulfa Sakhiyya, Sonja Trifuljesko, Onjung Choi
{"title":"Re-considering internationalisation from the periphery","authors":"S. Alemu, Mei Qu, Zulfa Sakhiyya, Sonja Trifuljesko, Onjung Choi","doi":"10.3167/latiss.2022.150302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2022.150302","url":null,"abstract":"While there is little agreement about the definitions, theories and practices of internationalisation, they have one thing in common. They tend to originate from Europe and North America and primarily serve the interests of Anglo-American academia (Ivancheva and Syndicus 2019; Marginson 2016; Rhoades et al. 2019). These two articles take a different perspective. They look at internationalisation from two kinds of peripheries and consider the strategies that peripheralised countries and people are using to try and create a more balanced or equal relationship between local or national interests and those of universities in Europe and North America. The first article considers internationalisation from peripheral countries in sub-Saharan Africa, China and Indonesia and explores the strategies of regional cooperation, ‘balanced internationalisation’ and marketisation (respectively) that they are adopting to resist marginalisation and dependency. The second article is written from the perspective of international students who are peripheralised within their host university and country in Europe. It explores the dilemmas students encounter when trying to negotiate language politics and the use of social media in order to participate more fully in the university and society.","PeriodicalId":45061,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Learning and Teaching-PLAT","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81599563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peripheries within the higher education centres","authors":"Sonja Trifuljesko, Onjung Choi","doi":"10.3167/latiss.2022.150304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2022.150304","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000To investigate how the process of peripheralisation usurps internationalisation experiences within the global higher education centres, this article draws on two separate case studies, one conducted in Finland and the other in the UK. In both contexts, Anglophone hegemony plays an important role, but in different manners. In the Finnish case, conflating internationalisation with Englishisation results in both domestic and international students and staff having to continuously grapple with language use in their daily lives. In the UK context, international students in English-speaking universities encounter asymmetric power relations with the locals, which they try to overcome through identity negotiation over digital and physical spaces. Both cases show that creating a liveable international university necessitates structural changes that would build on already existing agentic engagements of international students and staff.","PeriodicalId":45061,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Learning and Teaching-PLAT","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86827446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Lewis, S. Robertson, M. Lim, Janja Komljenovic, Chris Muellerleile, C. Shore, T. Bajenova
{"title":"Market making and the (re)production of knowledge in public universities","authors":"N. Lewis, S. Robertson, M. Lim, Janja Komljenovic, Chris Muellerleile, C. Shore, T. Bajenova","doi":"10.3167/latiss.2022.150305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2022.150305","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This collection of short essays presents and examines six vignettes of organisational change in British, New Zealand and European universities. Drawing on the social studies of economisation literature, formal research projects and auto-ethnographic insights, the authors detail profound changes in how knowledge is produced in universities. They examine policy documents, calculative techniques and management practices to illustrate how proliferating market rationalities, technologies and relations are reimagining university missions, reframing their practices and refashioning their subjects. Their vignettes demonstrate that market-making pressures are emerging from micro-scale socio-technical arrangements as well as altered funding models and external policy imperatives. They reveal the extent and detail of market-making pressures on academic practice in research and teaching. Finding ways to contest these pressures is imperative.","PeriodicalId":45061,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Learning and Teaching-PLAT","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78557962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voices of internationalisation of higher education from sub-Saharan Africa, China and Indonesia","authors":"S. Alemu, Mei Qu, Zulfa Sakhiyya","doi":"10.3167/latiss.2022.150303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2022.150303","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000From the perspective of peripheralised countries, internationalisation is imbalanced and hegemonic, as it is predominantly constructed by universities in the Global North. We explore the imbalanced internationalisation from the cases of sub-Saharan Africa through the dominance of Western knowledge systems and brain drain; China through isolation and playing ‘catch up’; and Indonesia through the financial crisis, the bailout conditions of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and marketisation. By taking the cases of sub-Sahara Africa, China and Indonesia, this article problematises the idea of internationalisation and argues that it further relegates universities from the peripheralised countries to the margin.","PeriodicalId":45061,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Learning and Teaching-PLAT","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86800254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}