Series: Teaching Methods
Teaching Consent Before Content
I was tasked with acting as a guest lecturer for a Sociology of Gender course on the topic of BDSM … Read More
Dixon and Quirke (2017) discuss how ethics chapters in sociological research methods textbooks promote a procedural rather than nuanced approach to ethics. They suggest ways for instructors to help students develop a fuller understanding of conducting ethical research.
Looking for a way to address barriers to statistical literacy and help students reach their statistical potential? This piece offers a psychosocial approach to teaching statistics to promote deeper learning.
Community-Engaged Learning as a Triple Win
For tenure track faculty with research intensive roles, balancing research and teaching can be difficult. Meanwhile, students are eager to … Read More
Michael Burawoy describes service-learning as the prototype for teaching public sociology. However, it also runs the risk of reinforcing issues of power between the university and the community. Using the CISER model, Greenberg, London, and McKay (2019) discuss how to flip the script on capital and better engage first-generation and working-class students in service experiences.
Comics and the Ethnographic Sensibility
Students of ethnography are often encouraged to develop an ethnographic sensibility, or an attunement to the material and social relations … Read More
Teaching Consent Before Content
I was tasked with acting as a guest lecturer for a Sociology of Gender course on the topic of BDSM … Read More
Dixon and Quirke (2017) discuss how ethics chapters in sociological research methods textbooks promote a procedural rather than nuanced approach to ethics. They suggest ways for instructors to help students develop a fuller understanding of conducting ethical research.
Looking for a way to address barriers to statistical literacy and help students reach their statistical potential? This piece offers a psychosocial approach to teaching statistics to promote deeper learning.
Community-Engaged Learning as a Triple Win
For tenure track faculty with research intensive roles, balancing research and teaching can be difficult. Meanwhile, students are eager to … Read More
Michael Burawoy describes service-learning as the prototype for teaching public sociology. However, it also runs the risk of reinforcing issues of power between the university and the community. Using the CISER model, Greenberg, London, and McKay (2019) discuss how to flip the script on capital and better engage first-generation and working-class students in service experiences.
Comics and the Ethnographic Sensibility
Students of ethnography are often encouraged to develop an ethnographic sensibility, or an attunement to the material and social relations … Read More