Successful teaching techniques in a race relations class.
The authors present suggestions for enhancing a university course in race relations. These approaches were used in a series of classes offered at a state university in the southeastern United States during a historical period of notable racial tension. This course provided a supportive arena for personal questioning, student interaction, and positive change. Even 20 years later, former students reported that experiential components, such as living with a family of another race, were powerful instruments in self-growth, development, and racial understanding. Many reported this class as the basis of profound, life-long positive changes in racial attitudes.
Kranz
P L
PL
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas Pan-American, USA.
Lund
Nick L
NL
D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards*