A Career in Sociology was written for introductory undergraduate courses on sociological …
A Career in Sociology was written for introductory undergraduate courses on sociological practice. The book was designed for faculty and students searching for an open educational resource (OER) that provides sociological terms, concepts, and theories in the study of sociological practice. To adapt to the educational needs of individuals using this book, the instructor or learner must understand the underlying content. And, instructional approach may require additional resources and/or other methods to make the learning experience her or his own.
Interview with Anita Newell Word Count: 6138 (Note: This resource's metadata has …
Interview with Anita Newell
Word Count: 6138
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I teach at a dual language school in New Haven formerly known …
I teach at a dual language school in New Haven formerly known as Christopher Columbus Family Academy. It is a school composed of almost all Hispanic students and designed on the exterior to resemble a ship. There is a large bust in front of the building of a navigator sighting land, an event commemorated on a nearby plaque celebrating the bravery and exploration of Columbus and his crew. The intended metaphor seems clear enough; the young students within the hull of this ship are also explorers of sorts. The school has since changed its controversial name, but the irony of the metaphor remains; students trapped within the hull of a vessel steered by imperialist authorities.
This unit would have the students up in the masts instead; to have them explore the world and map their journey through it, to make them navigators of their own identities and values. This unit introduces the concept of a cartography of the self. That is, by using the techniques and tools of mapmaking applied to our personal lives and literary stories, we can develop a much more clear and relevant sense of our own history, experiences, values, relationships, hopes, and fears. The aim of this practice is to give teachers and students, through the creation of a series of Life-Maps, a deeper understanding of who they are, what they value, where they wish to go, and who they wish to become. Map making of this kind is fundamentally empowering, as it necessitates the act of naming and ordering the world.
Through this unit, students will learn a broad narrative of the women's …
Through this unit, students will learn a broad narrative of the women's rights movement in the United States and elsewhere. We will begin with the present as to why there are still issues with equality among men and women, and search back through history for its causes. My objective will be to correct students’ misinformation and to encourage them to understand why gender inequality in its various forms--political, economic, and social--persists to the present day.
The inspirational examples of influential women will teach students the behaviors needed to succeed in the world. Case studies, informed by the CRAIGs structure, will be our starting point.
Student readings examine the Boy Scouts of America's policy of excluding gays, …
Student readings examine the Boy Scouts of America's policy of excluding gays, as well as efforts by scouts themselves to challenge discrimination from both inside and outside the organization.
By conducting interviews, sharing and assessing data, and writing papers based on …
By conducting interviews, sharing and assessing data, and writing papers based on their authentic research, students reach their own conclusions on the meaning of the American Dream.
Children, Families, Schools, and Communities is an introductory text in the field …
Children, Families, Schools, and Communities is an introductory text in the field of Child and Family Studies. It provides a lens for understanding the evolving definition of “family”. It promotes strategies for culturally sustaining and deeply collaborative relationships. Children, Families, Schools, and Communities is an adapted OER text from Rebecca Laff’s and Wendy Ruiz’s "Child, Family, and Community".
Produto educacional desenvolvido como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do título de …
Produto educacional desenvolvido como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do título de Mestre em Ciências Ambientais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Rede Nacional para Ensino das Ciências Ambientais - PROFCIAMB. Esse produto é resultado da dissertação de mestrado “A ÉTICA AMBIENTAL E A SOCIEDADE DE RISCO EM UM JOGO DIDÁTICO, COMO INSTRUMENTO NA PROMOÇÃO DE UMA EDUCAÇÃO PARA O DEENVOLVMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL”, realizada no programa de mestrado profissional PROFCIAMB em 2021. Considerando o contexto socioambiental mundial nas últimas décadas e a assinatura da Agenda 2030 para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, buscou-se recursos para promover uma Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Na ética ambiental e na teoria da Sociedade de Risco de Ulrich Beck, encontrou-se potenciais para tal e objetivando a dinamicidade e a necessidade de metodologias ativas no ensino, propôs-se a criação de um jogo didático em que os estudantes são confrontados com dilemas éticos e riscos relacionados ao Desenvolvimento Sustentável.
This course's aims are two-fold: to offer students the theoretical and practical …
This course's aims are two-fold:
to offer students the theoretical and practical tools to understand how and why cities become torn by ethnic, religious, racial, nationalist, and/or other forms of identity that end up leading to conflict, violence, inequality, and social injustice; and to use this knowledge and insight in the search for solutions
As preparation, students will be required to become familiar with social and political theories of the city and the nation and their relationship to each other. They also will focus on the ways that racial, ethnic, religious, nationalist or other identities grow and manifest themselves in cities or other territorial levels of determination (including the regional or transnational). In the search for remedies, students will be encouraged to consider a variety of policymaking or design points of entry, ranging from the political- institutional (e.g. forms of democratic participation and citizenship) to spatial, infrastructural, and technological interventions.
Citizen participation is everywhere. Invoking it has become de rigueur when discussing …
Citizen participation is everywhere. Invoking it has become de rigueur when discussing cities and regions in the developing world. From the World Bank to the World Social Forum, the virtues of participation are extolled: From its capacity to "deepen democracy" to its ability to improve governance, there is no shortage to the benefits it can bring. While it is clear that participation cannot possibly "do" all that is claimed, it is also clear that citizen participation cannot be dismissed, and that there must be something to it. Figuring out what that something is — whether it is identifying the types of participation or the contexts in which it happens that bring about desirable outcomes — is the goal of the class.
Portraits de femmes engagées pour le bien commun Short Description: Série de …
Portraits de femmes engagées pour le bien commun
Short Description: Série de 31 portraits de femmes engagées pour le bien commun, du XVIIIe siècle à 2014, sur tous les continents.
Long Description: Ce livre propose les portraits de 31 femmes de différents pays et de différentes époques qui ont un point commun : elles se sont engagées à un moment de leur vie pour transformer la société dans laquelle elles vivaient, dans l’espoir de la rendre plus vivable, plus juste, plus équitable, plus libre. Le cœur du message est que la politique n’est pas l’affaire d’une seule élite, les citoyens et citoyennes doivent et peuvent se la réapproprier. D’Olympe de Gouges, rédactrice de la Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne en 1791 à Laure Waridel, militante environnementaliste québécoise, en passant par Wangari Maathai (Kenya) ou Irena Sendler (Pologne), découvrez ces femmes ordinaires devenues exceptionnelles par leur engagement en faveur du bien commun. Une production de l’Association science et bien commun, au profit d’Accès savoirs, la boutique de science de l’Université Laval qui œuvre à rapprocher les étudiantes et étudiants de la société civile. Pour plus de renseignements, consultez scienceetbiencommun.org et accessavoirs.ulaval.ca.
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ISBN: 978-2-9814827-3-0
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Comment s’engager dans des actions en faveur de la vie et du …
Comment s’engager dans des actions en faveur de la vie et du bien commun en cette période marquée par des problèmes d’envergure planétaire tels que le réchauffement climatique, la pollution accrue, l’acidification des océans ou les menaces sur la biodiversité? Des gouvernements tentent tant bien que mal de s’entendre pour agir.
This class is intended to introduce students to understandings of the city …
This class is intended to introduce students to understandings of the city generated from both social science literature and the field of urban design. The first part of the course examines literature on the history and theory of the city. Among other factors, it pays special attention to the larger territorial settings in which cities emerged and developed (ranging from the global to the national to the regional context) and how these affected the nature, character, and functioning of cities and the lives of their inhabitants. The remaining weeks focus more explicitly on the theory and practice of design visions for the city, the latter in both utopian and realized form. One of our aims will be to assess the conditions under which a variety of design visions were conceived, and to assess them in terms of the varying patterns of territorial "nestedness" (local, regional, national, imperial, and global) examined in the first part of the course. Another will be to encourage students to think about the future prospects of cities (in terms of territorial context or other political functions and social aims) and to offer design visions that might reflect these new dynamics.
This course is a service-learning, project-based studio course that focuses on collaborative …
This course is a service-learning, project-based studio course that focuses on collaborative design of civic media. Students will work in diverse teams with community partners to create civic media projects grounded in real-world community needs. This course covers co-design and lean UX methods, and best practices for including communities in iterative stages of project ideation, design, prototyping, testing, launch, and stewardship. Students should have an interest in collaboration with community-based organizations.
The goal of this exercise is to examine the relationship between demographic …
The goal of this exercise is to examine the relationship between demographic characteristics and different forms of civic participation in China. Crosstabulation will be used.
This lesson plan is made for two learning objectives:Ss will be able …
This lesson plan is made for two learning objectives:Ss will be able to find reliable resources on the internet (Digital literacy skill)Ss will be able to present a specific and realistic action plan (Speaking skill)
In recent years both scholars and policymakers have expressed a remarkable amount …
In recent years both scholars and policymakers have expressed a remarkable amount of interest in the concepts of social capital and civil society. A growing body of research suggests that the social networks, community norms, and associational activities signified by these concepts can have important effects on social welfare, political stability, economic development, and governmental performance. This discussion based course examines the roles played by these networks, norms, and organizations in outcomes ranging from local public goods provision and the performance of democracies to ethnic conflict and funding for terrorism.
This is my offbeat attempt to unite very large-scale social theory (civilizations) …
This is my offbeat attempt to unite very large-scale social theory (civilizations) with very immediate and small-scale social practices (education). Perhaps this just a personal twist on the bumper-sticker philosophy of “Think Globally, Act Locally”. Just because it fits on a bumper-sticker, does not make it wrong! But this slogan does need details, explanations, and frameworks for applied practices to become more than a worthy sentiment. My hope is that readers will come one step closer to effective action on challenges both global and personal thanks to something they discover here.
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Worksheet used for a second-year sociology class on researching classical sociological theory. …
Worksheet used for a second-year sociology class on researching classical sociological theory. Students are asked to find and evaluate academic sources including books, articles and subject encyclopedias, and review APA citation style.
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