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ERIC Number: EJ397198
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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The Mushroom Curriculum: Using Natural History to Teach Psychology.
Sommer, Robert
Teaching of Psychology, v16 n2 p84-85 Apr 1989
Describes the development and content of a freshman seminar titled "The Psychology of Mushrooms," which teaches psychology as natural history. This approach allowed the course to proceed from concrete experience to general principals of perception, learning, social, and abnormal psychology. (Author/LS)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Experiential Learning, First Year Seminars, Higher Education, Learning, Perception, Psychological Studies, Psychology, Psychopathology, Social Psychology
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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