Difficult Topics
This piece by Merrill 2021, offers insight on some pedagogical tools instructors can use when teaching difficult or contentious topics.
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.
Want to engage more students using the Socratic method in your classes? Check Chiang-Lopez & Nuñez ‘s (2024) piece on the method’s challenges and strategies to minimize harm and student exclusion.
Struggling to talk with students about the ongoing crisis in Gaza? JSTOR provides a syllabus of background readings to help students begin to make sense of the current and recurring violence.
In a major victory for Native American rights, the U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld key provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a law enacted 45 years ago to remedy decades of past government abuse. Megan Krausch (2019) provides a model for discussing this timely issue with students without overburdening them.
This piece by Merrill 2021, offers insight on some pedagogical tools instructors can use when teaching difficult or contentious topics.
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.
Want to engage more students using the Socratic method in your classes? Check Chiang-Lopez & Nuñez ‘s (2024) piece on the method’s challenges and strategies to minimize harm and student exclusion.
Struggling to talk with students about the ongoing crisis in Gaza? JSTOR provides a syllabus of background readings to help students begin to make sense of the current and recurring violence.
In a major victory for Native American rights, the U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld key provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a law enacted 45 years ago to remedy decades of past government abuse. Megan Krausch (2019) provides a model for discussing this timely issue with students without overburdening them.