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YULIA CHENTSOVA DUTTON: I have done
a number of different activities where
I will teach an idea to my students
and ask them to take it out to play in their own lives.
So for example, in abnormal psychology,
we might learn about the effects of mindfulness or cognitive
reframing of problems in one's life.
And then I'll ask my students to practice the idea
and keep a diary and talk to each other about it.
We have also done activities on building healthy habits
in students' lives, both personal lives but also
academic lives, experimenting with different ways of studying
based on psychological science.
I have, in my cultural psychology class,
asked students to document their daily lives
and then compare their daily lives to students living
in another cultural environment who did the same assignment
and communicate about similarities and differences
across cultural contexts to help students kind of estrange
themselves from their own cultural experience
and look at it from an outsider's perspective
to notice how their culture both at home and here at Georgetown
is shaping their experience.
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