Nancy A Greenwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 128542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy A Greenwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy A |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenwood |
| SIGNATURE | GREENWOOD N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, IN, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toward Publicly Responsive Sociology Curricula: The Role of Introductory Sociology
Introductory sociology casts a wide net with regard to its audience and plays an important role in capturing the public eye as well as helping students to make more informed choices in their lives and communities. I ask six questions that help us as sociologists to think about how introductory sociology can better serve our discipline, our students, and their communities. These questions ask us to consider who our students are, how the course fit…
An Interview with Reece McGee
at Purdue University, where he holds a master teacher position in which he has taught only introductory sociology courses (in very large classes) from 1967 through the spring of 1993. He attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Macalester College, and the University of Minnesota as an undergraduate. He completed his MA and PhD. at Minnesota. He held regular faculty positions at Humboldt State College (now university), The University of Texas, a…
A Critical Review of Family Sociology Textbooks
In 1986 we published a review of 13 marriage and family textbooks in an attempt to help instructors select high-quality texts that suit their courses and students (Greenwood and Cassidy 1986). We also wanted to demonstrate to the publishing industry that we are an educated clientele who require a superior product. In this tradition, our present purpose is to review critically texts that are available for use in upper-division family sociology cou…
Elder Abuse: Conflict in the Family
A Review of Introductory Marriage and Family Texts: Standards for Evaluation
Each year a dozen or so new texts are available to instructors of marriage and family courses. These texts have a wide market including courses in adult education, health education, nursing, child and family studies, psychology, and, of course, sociology. Others have argued the importance of text selection for teaching and learning (Goldsmid and Wilson 1980). Because texts are so important, our primary purpose in this paper is to provide a useful…
The crime victim's book
Toward Publicly Responsive Sociology Curricula: The Role of Introductory Sociology
Introductory sociology casts a wide net with regard to its audience and plays an important role in capturing the public eye as well as helping students to make more informed choices in their lives and communities. I ask six questions that help us as sociologists to think about how introductory sociology can better serve our discipline, our students, and their communities. These questions ask us to consider who our students are, how the course fit…
The crime victim's book
A Review of Introductory Marriage and Family Texts: Standards for Evaluation
Each year a dozen or so new texts are available to instructors of marriage and family courses. These texts have a wide market including courses in adult education, health education, nursing, child and family studies, psychology, and, of course, sociology. Others have argued the importance of text selection for teaching and learning (Goldsmid and Wilson 1980). Because texts are so important, our primary purpose in this paper is to provide a useful…
Elder Abuse: Conflict in the Family
A Critical Review of Family Sociology Textbooks
In 1986 we published a review of 13 marriage and family textbooks in an attempt to help instructors select high-quality texts that suit their courses and students (Greenwood and Cassidy 1986). We also wanted to demonstrate to the publishing industry that we are an educated clientele who require a superior product. In this tradition, our present purpose is to review critically texts that are available for use in upper-division family sociology cou…
An Interview with Reece McGee
at Purdue University, where he holds a master teacher position in which he has taught only introductory sociology courses (in very large classes) from 1967 through the spring of 1993. He attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Macalester College, and the University of Minnesota as an undergraduate. He completed his MA and PhD. at Minnesota. He held regular faculty positions at Humboldt State College (now university), The University of Texas, a…
Toward Publicly Responsive Sociology Curricula: The Role of Introductory Sociology
Introductory sociology casts a wide net with regard to its audience and plays an important role in capturing the public eye as well as helping students to make more informed choices in their lives and communities. I ask six questions that help us as sociologists to think about how introductory sociology can better serve our discipline, our students, and their communities. These questions ask us to consider who our students are, how the course fit…
Sociology (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology of Education (2 works) · Ask price (1 works)