Intercultural Psychology

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures; seminar with invited specialist, group work, critical analysis, discussion and presentation of texts, practical activities and field work.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the curricular unit, students should be able to:

- understand, discuss and use the theoretical approaches about the relations between psychology and culture in the critical analysis of intercultural issues in current societies;

- analysing, interpret  and evaluate, based on a deep intercultural psychology'knowledge, the processes of cultural diversity, acculturation and relation with the other in current societies;

- use these knowledge as tools for a critical evaluation of concrete situations  and for the promotion of social inclusion, rights and democracy in the different social frameworks where they took place, with a special focus on educational contexts;

- use these knowledge in psychoeducational and psychosocial intervention in different intercultural contexts, namely in educational contexts.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. What is intercultural psychology?

2. Acculturation and cultural diversity

   2.1. Cultural groups and acculturation models

   2.2. Different and unequals

   2.3. Management of cultural diversity: assimilation and multiculturalism

3. The relation with the other

   3.1. Prejudice: psychosocial approaches 

   3.2. The construction of "scientific racism"

   3.3. Stereotypes and social representations about the other

   3.4. Prejudice reduction

4. The intercultural comparison 

   4.1. Basic processes

   4.2. Development and socialization

   4.3. Self

   4.4. Morality and justice

   4.5. Values

   4.6. Analysis of intercultural comparison in psychology

5. School education and cultural diversity

   5.1. The rise of equalitarian school as an important cultural change

   5.2. From compensatory education to intercultural education. Practices and problems

   5.3. Representations of the other in school: the case of colonialism in textbooks

Head Lecturer(s)

Joaquim Manuel Pires Valentim

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Benet-Martínez, V., & Hong, Y. (Eds.) (2014). The Oxford handbook of multicultural identity. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

Berry, J. W., Poortinga, Y. H., Breugelmans, S. M., Chasiotis, A., & Sam, D. L. (2011). Cross-cultural psychology: Research and applications (3rd ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press. 

Chryssochoou, X. (2003). Cultural diversity: Its social psychology. Oxford: Blackwell.

Heine, S. (2019). Cultural psychology (4th Ed.). New York: Norton. 

Kitayama, S., & Cohen, D. (2010). Handbook of cultural psychology.New York: Guilford Press.

Licata, L., & Heine, A. (2012). Introduction à la psychologie interculturelle. Bruxelles: De Boeck

van de Vijver, F., Chasiotis, A., & Breugelmans (Eds.) (2011). Fundamental questions in cross-cultural psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press

van Nieuwenhuyse, K. & Valentim, J.P. (Eds.) (2018). The colonial past in history textbooks. Historical and social psychological perspectives. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing.