Teaching With Sociological Imagination In Higher And Further Education

Author : Christopher R. Matthews
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811067252
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Teaching with Sociological Imagination in Higher and Further Education written by Christopher R. Matthews and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses research and personal stories from university lecturers to explore pedagogical strategies that illuminate how students’ minds can be ‘switched on’ in order to unlock their extraordinary potential. It presents diverse ways to create inspiring learning environments, in chapters written by internationally respected experts in the broad field of the social sciences. Each author illustrates how – through their unique teaching philosophies and practices – they seek to enhance students’ experiences and promote their critical thinking, learning and development. The respective chapters provide conceptual arguments, personal insights and practical examples from a broad range of classrooms, demonstrating various ways in which students’ sociological imagination can be brought to life. As such, the book is both practical and theoretical, and is primarily aimed at educators working in both higher and further education institutions who wish to develop their understanding of classroom pedagogy as well as gain practical ideas for teaching and learning in the social sciences.

Author : James Ostrow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100098074X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cultivating the Sociological Imagination written by James Ostrow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors and authors of this book, seventh in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, bring their own sociological wisdom and imagination to demonstrate how service-learning can effectively be used in the sociology curricula and in class exercises. Discussions in the introduction and chapters, along with appended syllabi, provide ways in which such programs can be adopted in undergraduate sociology courses.

Author : Miriam David
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317979907
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Sociology of Higher Education written by Miriam David and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sociology of Higher Education: Reproduction, Transformation and Change in a Global Era provides an exciting and conceptually rich approach to the sociology of higher education. It offers innovative perspectives on the future of universities within the new and emerging research sub-field of the sociology of global higher education. The twenty-first century has witnessed wide-ranging structural and ideological transformations in higher education which have created both a sense of opportunity, as well as crisis and loss in the urgent debates around the legitimate roles of the university in the 21st century. The chapters represent a diverse and vibrant field, illustrating a sociological imagination and a dynamic engagement with the key challenges facing higher education, and confirming continuing inequalities through internationalisation. This book is comprised of a broad selection of articles originally published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Author : Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
Publisher : Ahead Publishing House (imprint: Okcir Press)
ISBN 13 : 1888024534
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sociological Re-Imaginations in & of Universities written by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi and published by Ahead Publishing House (imprint: Okcir Press). This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Summer 2009 (VII, 3) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, is devoted to the theme “Sociological Re-Imaginations in & of Universities.” As part of the journal’s continuing series critically engaging with C. Wright Mills’ “sociological imagination,” i.e., the proposition that the best way to theorize and practice sociology is via a continual conversation between the study of one’s personal troubles and that of broader public issues, the present issue turns its attention to fostering sociological re-imaginations in and of universities. Several faculty, recent graduates or alumni, and current undergraduate students advance insightful, critical perspectives about their own learning and teaching experiences and personal “troubles,” and broader university, disciplinary, and administrative “public issues” that in their view merit immediate attention in favor of fundamental rectifications of outdated procedures and educational habita that continue to persist at the cost of more creative, and in fact more scientific and rational, approaches to production and dissemination of knowledge. Contributors include: Satoshi Ikeda, Sandra J. Song, L. Lynda Harling Stalker, Jason Pridmore, Festus Ikeotuonye, Samuel Zalanga, Donald A. Nielsen, Anne Bubriski, Penelope Roode, Belle Summer, E. M. Walsh, Ann Marie Moler, Minxing Zheng, Andrew Messing, Jillian Pelletier, Christine Quinn, Trevor Doherty, Lisa Kemmerer, and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi (also as journal editor-in-chief). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal’s Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR’s homepage.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789350027639
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Sociological Imagination written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118687124
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Globalization written by George Ritzer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies. Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in globalization Includes an enhanced emphasis on issues relating to global governance, emerging technology, global flows of people, human trafficking, global justice movements, and global environmental sustainability Utilizes a unique set of metaphors to introduce and explain the highly complex nature of globalization in an engaging and understandable manner Offers an interdisciplinary approach to globalization by drawing from fields that include sociology, global political economy, political science, international relations, geography, and anthropology Written by an internationally recognized and experienced author team

Author : Joy Whitton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429837968
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fostering Imagination in Higher Education written by Joy Whitton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagination and creative teaching approaches are increasingly important across all higher education disciplines, not just the arts. Investigating the role of imagination in teaching and learning in non-arts disciplines, this book argues that a lack of clarity about what imagination looks like in higher education impedes teachers in fostering their students’ creativity. Fostering Imagination in Higher Education tells four ethnographic stories from physics, history, finance and pharmaceutical science courses, analytically observing the strategies educators use to encourage their students’ imagination, and detailing how students experience learning when it is focussed on engaging their imagination. The highly original study is framed by Ricoeur’s work on different forms of imagination (reproductive and productive or generative). It links imaginative thinking to cognitive science and philosophy, in particular the work of Clark, Dennett and Polanyi, and to the mediating role of disciplinary concepts and social-cultural practices. The author’s discussion of models, graphs, strategies and artefacts as tools for taking learners’ thinking forward has much to offer understandings of pedagogy in higher education. Students in these case studies learned to create themselves as knowledge producers and professionals. It positioned them to experience actively the constructed nature of the knowledge and processes they were learning to use – and the continuing potential of knowledge to be remade in the future. This is what makes imaginative thinking elemental to the goals of higher education.

Author : Jerome Rabow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Excellent Teaching in the Excellent University written by Jerome Rabow and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing and widening the research of Alfred North Whitehead, Page Smith, Leslie Fiedler, Peter Berger, Goldsmid and Wilson among others, Professor Rabow posits an original research voice challenging the recurrent university emphasis on research at the expense of teaching. He and colleagues discuss the institutional, structural and cultural barriers to excellent teaching in elite universities. Essays explore how these barriers can be overcome and the teaching strategies necessary for success. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, a number of essays address the diversity of student population, faculty and administration in such a manner as to no longer marginalize these constituent groups. The book is divided into three sections: 1. Contradictions in the Professional Role and the College Classroom 2. Preparing for the 21st century 3. Multiculturalism in Preparing for the 21st Century: Excellence and Character. "This work will stimulate a deep discussion of elitism in outstanding universities and the way in which professors and students of color continue to be disenfranchised. It also demonstrates some of the processes by which this alienation can be overcome--by everyone. Recommended for research libraries and upper division courses." Dean Joseph Stevenson, Jackson State University Jerome Rabow is a senior faculty member and considered by his peers to be a major voice in the sociology of Education. He is also a very successful teacher of undergraduates.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136628088
Total Pages : 3554 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set G Higher & Adult Education 11 vol set written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 3554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mini-set G: Higher and Adult Education re-issues 11 volumes originally published between 1974 and 1992. They discuss and analyze adult education from both theoretical and practical standpoints and look at the challenges facing adult education during the 1970s and 80s as well as examining the history of higher & adult education in the UK. The mini-set includes one volume which although previously available with another publisher (and out of print for some years) is now available for the first time from Routledge.

Author : Donna M. Qualters
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470945052
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Experiential Education: Making the Most of Learning Outside the Classroom written by Donna M. Qualters and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators at the cutting edge of the experiential learning movement share their insights and experiences at colleges and universities nationwide This book provides college faculty and administrators with strategies for the successful design, construction, funding, and assessment of experiential education. Featuring edited contributions written by educators at the leading edge of the experiential education movement nationwide, it addresses the realities of experiential education while providing detailed descriptions of everything from the design of individual courses to entire programs. The authors weigh the various pros and cons of the experiential approach, and they offer pointers on how to engage colleagues and stakeholders to help them understand the manifold benefits of the approach.