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NEW: Teaching with TikTok in Online Sociology of Sex and Gender Courses
With the rise of online instruction, there is a critical need to develop innovative and exciting opportunities in online course concept learning, application, and peer-to-peer engagement. Nik Lampe shares how she fulfilled this need by utilizing the popular social media app TikTok to help students engage with sociological insights and concepts during course participation activities.
NEW: Blended Pedagogy in Social Statistics Courses: Prelecture Strategies for Encouraging Learning
Statistics anxiety, low student engagement during lectures, and difficulty understanding and connecting with pre-lecture materials, are commonly reported obstacles to learning in social statistics courses. Amanda Mireles shares how she uses blended learning strategies, web-based activities combined with traditional face-to-face instruction, to help students better engage with new material during lecture.
NEW: Encouraging Productive Behavior in Student Teams with Interventions
Jacqueline M. Zalewski and Susan Brudvig discuss common problems students experience within working teams and how they affect potential benefits gained from group work. Faculty can incorporate Team Development Interventions (TDIs) to discourage counterproductive student behavior, improve students' perceptions of team members and overall student engagement, as well as increase team satisfaction.
The Sociological Imagination within Teaching Sociology: 1973–2020
The sociological imagination is widely considered essential to sociology, still sociologists have struggled to agree on precisely what it is and how to measure its development effectively. Nathan Palmer gives an analysis of the issue and why it’s so integral to the teaching of sociology.
The Handmaid Still in the Classroom? Using The Handmaid’s Tale in Sociology of Gender
Barbara F. Prince discusses how she used The Handmaid’s Tale in her Sociology of Gender courses and other innovative approaches to classroom teaching.
Teaching Social Theory as Cartography: Toward a Pedagogy of Radical Accessibility
Social theory is a core part of the sociology curriculum, but it can often be difficult and challenging for students. Michel Estefan and Josh Seim share ways to better teach social theory by using ‘theory maps’.
Equity in the Classroom and the Clinic: Understanding the Role of Sociology in Health Professional Education
Ann Taylor, Caragh Brosnan, and Gwendalyn Webb discuss how sociology instructors can better relate to and assist health professions students, particularly in terms of promoting equity.
Learning from 2020: How the Challenges of Remote Teaching Reinforce the Need for Care-Informed Pedagogy
For many instructors, the first year of the COVID pandemic led to a quick reset to remote teaching. Kimberly Hess and Miriam Gleckman-Krut consider how sociology instructors dealt with challenges at the time, and offer pedagogical recommendations going forward.
