Teaching Sociology
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Editor: Kathleen S. Lowney, Valdosta State University |
Author's Corner • ASA Style Guide |
Teaching Sociology publishes articles, notes, and reviews intended to be helpful to the discipline's teachers. Articles range from experimental studies of teaching and learning to broad, synthetic essays on pedagogically important issues. Notes focus on specific teaching issues or techniques. The general intent is to share theoretically stimulating and practically useful information and advice with teachers. Formats include full-length articles; notes of 10 pages or less; interviews, review essays; reviews of books, films, videos, and software; and conversations.
The Impact of Racial Diversity in the Classroom: Activating the Sociological Imagination Josh Packard (April 2013)
Sociologists as Writing Instructors: Teaching Students to Think, Teaching an Emerging Skill, or Both? Suzanne S. Hudd, Lauren M. Sardi, and Maureen T. Lopriore (January 2013)
Can Online Courses Deliver In-class Results? A Comparison of Student Performance and Satisfaction in an Online versus a Face-to-face Introductory Sociology Course by Adam Driscoll, Karl Jicha, Andrea N. Hunt, Lisa Tichavsky, and Gretchen Thompson (October 2012)
Teaching Community Networks: A Case Study of Informal Social Support and Information Sharing among Sociology Graduate Students by Andrea N. Hunt, Christine A. Mair, and Maxine P. Atkinson (July 2012)
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Teaching Sociology: 1973-2009 by Maria Paino, Chastity Blankenship, Liz Grauerholz, and Jeffrey Chin (April 2012)
Sociology by Any Other Name: Teaching the Sociological Perspective in Campus Diversity Programs by Meghan A. Burke and Kira Hudson Banks (January 2012)
"You Have to Absorb Yourself in It": Using Inquiry and Reflection to Promote Student Learning and Self-knowledge by Sarah Nell Rusche and Kendra Jason (October 2011)
Changing Students' Perceptions of Inequality? Combining Traditional Methods and a Budget Exercise to Facilitate a Sociological Perspective by Lisa Garoutte and Donna Bobbitt-Zeher (July 2011)
Sociology of the Prison Classroom: Marginalized Identities and Sociological Imaginations Behind Bars by Kylie L. Parrotta and Gretchen H. Thompson (April 2001)
Who Has the Advantages in My Intended Career? Engaging Students in the Identification of Gender and Racial Inequalities by Stephen Sweet and Kimberly M. Baker (January 2011)