Social Science Space

More artificial intelligence, less tenure and a flipped classroom are three of the trends predicted by Patricia A. Young in her new book.

Lecturer Lori Patton Davis of The Ohio State University asks: Why are we still climbing the hill of educational equity 67 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

Academic staff have been working harder than ever, and after an incredibly tough 18 months they are now prioritizing their wellbeing as a top concern. What can academic publishers learn from this?

There is no blueprint for the liberation of learning in your subject discipline. Instead, deconstructing the content and approaches that have been used over the generations is a deeply personal – and at the same time, collective process.  

The phrase “Never Forget” is often associated with the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. But what does this phrase mean for U.S. students who are too young to remember? What are they being asked to never forget?

While writing is certainly a critical communication skill, universities need to start learning how to thoughtfully integrate all available skills.

The COVID pandemic has affected teaching in India as it has everywhere. Applying a sociological lens to the Indian experience of teaching sociology itself is instructive.

Prior to the pandemic, Kevin O’Neill and his colleagues conducted a study of how undergraduates at a public university in Canada chose which courses to take online.

SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science Space) has launched a new Teaching & Learning hub with a range of […]

The times they are a-changin’ for higher education. Or so say a growing number of commentators. They see COVID-19 disruptions […]

In the following Q&A, George Justice, an English professor and author of “How to Be a Dean,” explains the origin of tenure and the waning protections that it affords professors in the United States who have it.

In this video, Daphne Martschenko