interesting subject. How pedagocically-discreet is that?
I admit I've read the essay question a few times and I don't
understand it either. Guess I'm a FAIL.
I don't know this chap, but I agree with Eugene's assessment. When folks don't
understand something, this is usually a nudge about language practices, in my
experience. Language language language games.
diane
>
>Dear XCULers,
>
>I learned something interesting earlier this week during my undergraduate
>social psychology final exam that I would like to pass along to you all.
>
>After the regular exam, I asked my students to work in their established
>small groups (which had been used throughout the course for various
>projects) to answer this essay question:
>
>"Throughout the course, Gabrenya has made the point that American
>psychological social psychology is a product of the American Middle Class,
>and that it has a politically liberal, humanistic value bias (which can be
>good or bad, depending on your point of view). Choose one theory or topic
>of study from this course, and show how it would be approached differently
>(a different kind of theory, a different view of the topic, a different
>type of research, etc.) if it were produced by people from a distinctly
>different social background (i.e., different from liberal American Middle
>Class; need not be different on all 3 dimensions). Bonus: do not use the
>word "different" in your answer."
>
>Some groups immediately interepreted the problem in terms of how people
>different from themselves would behave in a certain domain, for example,
>how middle- and working-class people would differ in helping behavior. But
>of course, this is not the question at all. After I explained what I
>really wanted several times to each group, it became clear that they simply
>could not answer this kind of question.
>
>Can you?
>
>Have a nice holiday,
>
>Bill Gabrenya
>
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