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Teaching Foundational Concepts by Using the SEE-I Process

By Maxine P. Atkinson | Published: September 26, 2018

Dr. Maxine Atkinson shares her thoughts and challenges on how application is a crucial step to teaching foundational concepts. "One of the challenges we all...

Also posted in Resources | Tagged Sociology in Action | Leave a comment

Should Universities Be Parents?

By Robert Dingwall | Published: April 17, 2018

Increasingly, says Robert Dingwall, UK universities are taking a more paternal role in the lives of their students, taking -- or perhaps resuming -- more...

Heidi Neck on Entrepreneurship in Teaching Future Entrepreneurs

By Social Science Space | Published: March 30, 2018

How do you teach someone to be entrepreneurial? That’s the challenge presented to Heidi Neck, the Jeffry A. Timmons Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson...

Also posted in Recognition | Tagged entrepreneurship, Heidi Neck, TAA, Textbooks | Leave a comment

Educational Reforms Still Have No Answer for School System

By Jack Schneider | Published: March 9, 2018

The Gates Foundation is regrouping after its latest school improvement disappointment, but it’s not bowing out of the education reform business. As the philanthropic powerhouse...

Also posted in Academic Funding, International Debates, News, Public Engagement, Research | Tagged Bill Gates foundation, reform | Leave a comment

Ignorance and Interdisciplinary Work: Field Notes from the Social Science Foo Camp

By Tom Kecskemethy | Published: March 7, 2018

The first-ever “Social Science FOO Camp” was held a couple weeks ago at the Facebook headquarters in California. What's a Social Science Foo Camp? According...

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity, News, Research | Tagged Ignorance, Social Science Foo | Leave a comment

Managing Universities: Dodging the Dead Cat

By Robert Dingwall | Published: September 11, 2017

Academics have been disengaged, disengaged themselves, or never been engaged with the challenges of working in, and for, very complex organizations, says our Robert Dingwall....

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Research | Tagged university administration, University management, Wonkhe | Leave a comment

Reimagining the UK Sociology Curriculum: Internationalization, Decolonialization and Employability

By Robert Dingwall | Published: July 13, 2017

How well do sociology departments in the UK teach sociology that originated in the UK? Asking that surprisingly hard question may produce usable insights for...

Also posted in Brexit, International Debates, News, Public Engagement, Research, Science & Social Science | Tagged Economics, Inequality, Social Science, Sociology, Teaching | Leave a comment

In Search of Conservative Sociology

By Robert Dingwall | Published: April 4, 2017

As sociology has drifted further and further from any conservative touchstones, argues Robert Dingwall, it has become less and less able to understand the society...

Also posted in International Debates, News, Public Policy | Tagged Academic Freedom, Conservative, social policy, Social Science, Sociology | 2 Responses

Tips for Writing Case Studies

By Noah Barsky | Published: February 10, 2017

Ed. note – This post is drawn from two articles that originally appeared at SAGE Connection. Textbook examples certify learning. Cases educate. Textbook learning is...

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Download a Free Checklist for Smoking Out Fake News

By SAGE | Published: February 9, 2017

Concerned about the proliferation of fake news, CQ Press has created a short checklist aimed at students and teachers that offers some tools for divining...

Also posted in Communication | Tagged Cognitive Bias, Fake News | Leave a comment

See the Error, See the Individual — and See the Intervention

By Kristina C. Breaux | Published: January 30, 2017

The guest editors of a special issue of the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment explain how its scholarship helps is to understand what students’ errors on standardized...

Also posted in Research | Tagged Assessment, Psychology | Leave a comment

Book Review: 100 Activities for Teaching Research Methods

By Sarah Lewthwaite | Published: December 13, 2016

Reviewer Sarah Lewthwaite finds that in '100 Activities for Teaching Research Methods,' Catherine Dawson offers an important and welcome addition to the emerging literature on...

Also posted in Bookshelf | Tagged Book Review, Research Methods | Leave a comment

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