The Haitian blood libel is activating my basest "love it or leave it" tendencies. Like if you want to live under an authoritarian ethnostate, there are plenty of options out there for you, but in THIS country we're trying to do a multiracial creedal republic.
This is true: If elected as Vice President, Tim Walz will have the highest office ever held by a sitcom neighbor who gives advice in the third act
Me turning on canoe slalom: What the heck is this sport? Me thirty seconds later: That dude really needs to work on his hairpin turns.
Project Community is a model of creating a transformative student experience through community-based learning. Find out how it works in “Sociology in Action: The Experiential Pedagogy of Project Community” by Rebecca D. Christensen in Sociological Focus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Established by student activists in the 1960s, Project Community in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan (U-M), Ann Arbor, is one of the longest-running community-engaged learn...
Community-based learning (CBL) is a transformative experience for students, but often requires a large investment of time from faculty. Community-engaged field trips are an alternate instructional tool for instructors to achieve the core benefits of CBL in a more manageable way.
Feeling burnt out in academia? Matthew H. McLeskey and Laura Obernesser offer techniques for managing emotional labor in their article “Strategies for the Unequal Distribution of Emotional Labor in Graduate Student and Contingent Teaching” in Sociological Focus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Scholarship on teaching and learning (SoTL) shows how caring for students proves crucial to effective college teaching. Providing mentorship to undergraduates in and outside the classroom can requi...
Are you looking for ways to engage students while discussing social justice? Do you want to get them thinking about how to apply what they are learning in the real world? Check out “Vignettes for Social Justice Learning” by Angela M. Adkins in Sociological Focus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This paper presents a classroom exercise using six open-ended and non-directive vignettes developed as part of a larger research study on the effects of active learning on values, compassion, and a...
As sociology instructors, we oftentimes find ourselves teaching controversial topics to our students. Are you wondering how to promote critical thinking in an era of polarized classrooms?