Group Problem-Solving Approach to Learning about Gender Stratification and Research Process in Introductory Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11064544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Lehman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1319113 |
| OpenAlex | W1991771832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 2 |
ATARECENTseries of department meetings discussing our Introduction to Sociology courses, I was struck by our agreement that we wanted students to learn to do sociology, to be able to use it, to employ a sociological perspective-as Eckstein, Schoenike, and Delaney (1995) put it in a recent essay, to speak with a sociological voice. I was also struck by the confusion we shared about how to accomplish this. Eckstein, Schoenike, and Delaney (1995:356-57) go on to point out that there is a tendency to confuse a sociological vocabulary with a sociological perspective. Students learn the voice of a discipline, they argue, by practicing it-by trial and error. This is essentially a problem-solving or active-learning approach to learning that, rather than presenting theories and concepts first, and then applying them, makes a problem the centerpiece and helps students learn concepts and theories as tools to solve the problem. As Scott Sernau (1995) summarizes it
Epistemology · Group (periodic table · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Stratification (seeds · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
Classroom as a Site of Learning
More than a Game
Individualized Medical Sociology
Attaining More and Greater Depth of Discussion in the Undergradate Classroom
Unmasking moral dichotomies
Small-Group Learning and Hypothetical Families in a Large Introductory Course
Teaching about Race and Ethnicity
What Kind of Car Am I? An Exercise to Sensitize Students to Social Class Inequality
Working with Stories
The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
Classroom Organization and Participation
| Citations per year | 0.41 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2015 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |