I managed to go through four years of high school without writing an annotated bibliography. Now, though, it is my time to shine. My research question is whether political identity
My research question is whether political identity has an impact on behavior in a classroom. The influence for this question is my major, psychology. Last quarter, my class studied the effect of outside factors on human behavior. In order to approach this political identity and behavior, I need to integrate the concept of teaching–also known as pedagogy–with behavioral and social psychology.
What’s going on up there?
Overloading my brain, and the database, with classroom behavior and political identification through the perspectives of all three fields of study, led me to one article about the very core issue. (If you ever want to feel inept, try reading a multi-paged psychology research report without looking up the words you don’t know.) It wasn’t a multi-paged research report, but a news article on a website frequented by the academic community about the affect a political event had on a college campus.
The event in question featured a speech by Milo Yiannopolis and resulted in strong resistance from the rest of the student body. The president of the student organization who held the event received threats and hostility from other students and faculty.
Oh Milo…
This arouses questions about the frequency of situations like that on other campuses. How do students in the minority political group feel? Does it affect their behavior in class? All to be answered in time.