Teaching Note—Revisiting Stereotypes: Enhancing Cultural Awareness Through a Web-Based Tool

ABSTRACT

Educating social work students to work in a diverse, multicultural reality is a major challenge in the profession. This teaching note suggests one method, the Web-based implicit association test, to develop and enhance cultural awareness among social work students. Based on my experience, I propose a framework for using the test to initiate a meaningful learning experience for students.

Notes

¹ People have a more complex schema regarding in-groups than out-groups. Consequently, appraisals of out-group members will be more extreme or polarized than appraisals of in-group members (see Linville & Jones, 1980).

² It is advisable for instructors to read carefully the “Frequently Asked Questions” section on the website for responses to the questions most of the students have.

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Notes on contributors

Yochay Nadan

Yochay Nadan is a faculty member at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.