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Looking for more ways to center your students? Check out this piece from Schall on letting go of power and making students co-contributers in the classroom.
Struggling to engage Gen Z students? This paper discusses using “Renewable Assignments” to meet the needs of younger students through active learning, collaboration, and fostering independence.
Are you looking for a new classroom activity to engage students? Angela Adkins (2023) suggests using open-ended, non-directive vignettes to promote the discussion of sociological theory and address systemic issues and social justice.
See Odum and Kordsmeier’s discussion about the impact teaching sociology in “unprecedented times” can have on students. While various difficulties may arise while teaching during crises, this article gives teachers ideas to craft their pedagogy for an engaged future.
Looking to summarize to students recent discussions on eviction and gentrification? Hepburn, Louis & Desmond (2024) look at six million court cases filed in 72 cities in the US and find that eviction is a durable component of neighborhood disadvantage.
Blog post assignments can help students experiment with writing sociologically. Find out how Ruth M. Hernández-Ríos has used blogs to teach students to analyze complex theories about gender and sex while also improving their writing in this The Society Pages post from 2019.
Intro textbooks typically devote little attention to environmental sociology. Check out this The Society Pages post from 2019 on helping students think sociologically about climate change. Link to a module you can use in your Intro class included!
Finalizing your syllabi and thinking about equitable assignments? See Estefan and colleagues’ (2023) Teaching Sociology piece, and further recommended text compiled by Becky Supiano (2023) on equitable classrooms.
Today marks the second anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Sociologist Kimberly Kelly (2023) offers a feminist approach for teaching about abortion and reproductive justice in a Post-Roe world.
Intro to Sociology courses often serve as the “public” face of the field, but how do they contribute to students’ “mental image” of sociology? Miskolczi (2023) conducted a qualitative longitudinal study of students’ mind mapping the central concept of sociology in Hungary discovering recurring vagueness in their conceptualization of the field.
Looking for more ways to center your students? Check out this piece from Schall on letting go of power and making students co-contributers in the classroom.
Struggling to engage Gen Z students? This paper discusses using “Renewable Assignments” to meet the needs of younger students through active learning, collaboration, and fostering independence.
Are you looking for a new classroom activity to engage students? Angela Adkins (2023) suggests using open-ended, non-directive vignettes to promote the discussion of sociological theory and address systemic issues and social justice.
See Odum and Kordsmeier’s discussion about the impact teaching sociology in “unprecedented times” can have on students. While various difficulties may arise while teaching during crises, this article gives teachers ideas to craft their pedagogy for an engaged future.
Looking to summarize to students recent discussions on eviction and gentrification? Hepburn, Louis & Desmond (2024) look at six million court cases filed in 72 cities in the US and find that eviction is a durable component of neighborhood disadvantage.
Blog post assignments can help students experiment with writing sociologically. Find out how Ruth M. Hernández-Ríos has used blogs to teach students to analyze complex theories about gender and sex while also improving their writing in this The Society Pages post from 2019.
Intro textbooks typically devote little attention to environmental sociology. Check out this The Society Pages post from 2019 on helping students think sociologically about climate change. Link to a module you can use in your Intro class included!
Finalizing your syllabi and thinking about equitable assignments? See Estefan and colleagues’ (2023) Teaching Sociology piece, and further recommended text compiled by Becky Supiano (2023) on equitable classrooms.
Today marks the second anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Sociologist Kimberly Kelly (2023) offers a feminist approach for teaching about abortion and reproductive justice in a Post-Roe world.
Intro to Sociology courses often serve as the “public” face of the field, but how do they contribute to students’ “mental image” of sociology? Miskolczi (2023) conducted a qualitative longitudinal study of students’ mind mapping the central concept of sociology in Hungary discovering recurring vagueness in their conceptualization of the field.