Charles L. Brewer

Teaching psychology in America : a history

Evolution of Undergraduate Curricula in Psychology, 1892-1992 Collegiate Career Advising Status, Antecedents and Strategies Shifts Along the Socratic-Sophistic Continuum in the American Teaching of Psychology and of Psychological Research Teaching of Psychology - A Foreign View Psychologists as Teachers A Brief History of the American Psychological Foundations Award for Distinguished Teachers of Psychology Women - Their Influence and Their Impact on the Teaching of Psychology Role of Ethnic Minorities in Psychology An Interview with Model Teacher Wilbert J. McKeachie National Conferences on Undergraduate Psychology Education and Training Conferences in Graduate Education Conferences on Internship and Postdoctoral Training Regional Psychology Conferences for Teachers and Students The APA and the Teaching the Psychology Advancing the Teaching of Psychology Division in Search of Self A History of APA s Division Two, the Division on the Teaching of Psychology A Quartet of Councils Interested in the Teaching of Psychology The Two National Honour Societies in Psychology Teaching of Psychology, the Journal Portraits of a Discipline An Examination of Introductory Textbooks in America Psychological Handbooks Constancy and Change Teaching as Depicted in Journals.

Undergraduate education in psychology: United States

Until the last quarter of the 19th century, many colleges and universities in the USA did not have separate departments of psychology. Now, psychology undergraduate degrees are among the most popular and frequently awarded in US higher education. Undergraduate psychology programs appeal to students for many reasons, including self‐understanding as well as their relatedness to other career paths of interest. Unlike undergraduate programs in most of the world, which are 5 years in length and designed to prepare professional psychologists, programs in the US are 4 years in length and do not prepare professional psychologists. Licensed psychologists in the US are generally required to hold doctoral degrees. Graduate programs to prepare psychologists are accredited by the American Psychological Association, but undergraduate programs vary widely and are evaluated by state and regional accrediting entities. Teaching methods, materials, and forms of student assessment also differ widely. Providing specific infor...

William James's Talks about Teaching

More than 100 years after it was published, William Jamess (1899/1939) book, Talks to Teachers on Psychology, is relevant and helpful for teachers and those who aspire to teach. In this article, I highlight certain memorable points in Talks and relate them to Jamess (1890) classic work, The Principles of Psychology. Many of Jamess insights foreshadowed certain emphases of present-day researchers, and his observations on teaching are as germane now as they were more than a century ago.