Psychological literacy is becoming an increasingly high profile topic within the Psychology education community in the UK and globally. Here you will find resources designed to help Psychology academics to get to grips with the theoretical concept of psychological literacy and its practical implications for teaching and learning.
An introductory guide to psychological literacy and psychologically literate citizenship
by Carolyn Mair Jacqui Taylor and Julie Hulme
This HEA guide outlines the theoretical context for psychological literacy and its rationale and offers some ideas about aspects of the curriculum that lend themselves to developing psychological literacy in your students. It also signposts a comprehensive list of resources and references to facilitate further study on the topic.
Developing the psychologically literate citizen at the University of Stirling
by Roger Watt
This HEA reflective case study offers insight into how the psychology undergraduate curriculum at the University of Stirling has been developed with psychological literacy at its heart. It provides a reflective account of one academic's experiences of embedding and integrating psychological literacy into his own teaching which is intended to stimulate creative thinking to help other academics to do the same.
