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Diversifying Curricula: How Are People of Colour Represented in Lecture Slide Images?
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Mi Young Ahn; Kathleen M. Quinlan; Barbara Adewumi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Diversifying higher education curricula has been called for as one way to reduce racial inequalities in higher education. This study makes an original contribution by focusing on images of people in lecture slides. We explored how people of colour versus white individuals were portrayed in images (n = 250) used in lecture slides in four first-year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Visual Aids
Using "Shrek" to Teach about Stigma
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Melchiori, Kala J.; Mallett, Robyn K. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
We describe an active learning exercise to teach students about social stigma. After lecturing on the topic, the instructor distributes a worksheet and shows several clips from the movie "Shrek," pausing after each clip to lead a discussion of the concepts. We provide information about the movie scenes, the student worksheet, and…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Stereotypes, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
Education about Sexuality in the Elderly by Healthcare Professionals: A Survey from the Southern Hemisphere
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Helmes, Edward; Chapman, Joanne – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2012
Education about sexuality is one method of reducing common negative stereotypes about this aspect of the life of older people. Knowledge and attitudes toward sexuality are therefore particularly important in those who educate healthcare professionals. We surveyed schools of medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Quality of Life, Stereotypes
Using Prior Knowledge to Aid Teaching and Learning: What Do First-Year Psychology Students Know about Old Age?
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Hartley, James – Higher Education Review, 2007
Students attending a lecture usually have a wide range of prior knowledge about the topic in question. Rather than seeing this as a problem, lecturers can take advantage of such differences. This article shows how students' misconceptions about old age were used to inform a lecture on the topic. Prior knowledge can thus be used to aid teaching and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Psychology, Lecture Method, Misconceptions
Teachers' Modeling Advantage and Their Modeling Effects on College Students' Learning Styles and Occupational Stereotypes: A Case of Collaborative Teaching in Technical Courses
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Chiou, Wen-Bin; Yang, Chao-Chin – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
In this study, modeling advantage that depicts the likelihood of a teacher model being imitated by students over other competing models in a particular class was developed to differentiate the rival modeling of two kinds of teachers (the technical teachers vs. the lecturing teachers) between college students' learning styles and occupational…
Descriptors: College Students, Team Teaching, Role Models, Lecture Method
How the Topic of Homosexuality is Taught at U.S. Medical Schools.
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Wallick, Mollie M.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1992
A national survey of 82 medical schools concerning curriculum and instruction on homosexuality found mean instruction time of 3 hours 26 minutes, with significant geographic variation. The most common strategy was lectures in human sexuality, followed distantly by panel presentations and interaction with gays and lesbians. Integration of the topic…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Homosexuality