Serving Social Justice and Pedagogical Innovation by Giving Psychology Away

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University Teaching Fellow & Psychology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversitySenior Open Education Advocacy & Research Fellow, BCcampus

Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.

@thatpsychprof

Serving SOCIAL JUSTICE &PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION byGIVING PSYCHOLOGY AWAY

“higher education shall be equally accessible to all”

The cost barrier kept2.4 million

low and moderate-income college-qualified

high school graduates from completing college in the previous decade

The Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED529499.pdf

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37.6% Earn a poor grade

26.1% Drop a course

19.8% Fail a course

2016 Florida Student Textbook Survey

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Source: David Wiley, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 March 5, 2014, CC-BY

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“I can imagine nothing we could do that would be more relevant to human welfare and nothing that could pose a greater challenge to the next generation of psychologists than to discover how best to give psychology away”

– G. A. Miller

George A. Miller (1920-2012)

~1.6 million take Introductory Psychology>90,000 Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology

~25% pursue graduate work~5% enroll in a doctoral program

Gurung et al. (2016); Halonen (2011)

"France in 2000 year (XXI century). Future school." by Jean Marc Cote is in the Public Domain

John W. Gardner (1912-2002)

“All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants”

"Recycling Water Bottles" by Mr.TinDC is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

Examples6

Open Pedagogy:

HOW

Deeper learning (Farzan & Kraut, 2013)

Evaluate and defend credibility of sources (Marentette, 2014)

Write more concisely and think more critically (Farzan & Kraut, 2013)

Collaborate with students from around the world (Karney, 2012)

Provide and receive constructive feedback (Ibrahim, 2012)

Enhance digital literacy (Silton, 2012)

Communicate ideas to a general audience (APS, 2013)

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Students who have taken on Wikipedia assignments since 2010

New articles that students have created

Instructors who say they will, or plan to, teach with Wikipedia again

“The students also realized they were a valuable asset to Wikipedia. Their thinking and writing skills as well as their access to an extensive academic library were not broadly shared.

As knowledge translators, they could also provide a service to the general public by clearly communicating basic concepts about language acquisition. They wondered who their readers might be: parents? teachers? students in developing countries?

One thing that the students uniformly loved about this project was the possibility of other people seeing and recognizing their work.” (Marentette, 2014, p. 37).

“They felt their work was meaningful because their contributions are shared with the entire world, rather than just their instructor. They liked that their contributions will not end up in a drawer after the semester ends, but will continue to be available to many people as a useful resource.

Some students even noted with pride that their contributions might have wider use than some articles published in academic journals.” (Ibrahim, 2012, p. 29)

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Why have students just answer questions when

they can write them?

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"GB Airways A320" by Tony Evans is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

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