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Creation of this site
The purpose of this website is to freely share with teachers and learners of
sociology the
curriculum and the best of the resources found. The website was designed by
Caroline H. Persell, Department of Sociology,
Selection of the Resources:
The sources included here
were selected as follows:
1)
ASA Task Force
members wrote and/or proposed a number of lesson plans, exercises, data
explorations, films, readings, and other materials.
2)
Other teachers
and scholars in the field wrote and/or recommended resources.
3)
All of these
resources (numbering over 100 items) were independently reviewed and rated by
an undergraduate sociology major at
4)
Going forward,
there is a feedback form attached to each page that can be used to rate and
comment on each resource.
Criteria Used:
1)
To what degree
does the resource illuminate an important and relevant sociological topic, concept, or
process?
2)
Does it
involve active learning?
3)
Is there
research available assessing how well the resource achieves its learning goals?
4)
Is it relevant
to the lives of students?
5)
Does the
resource involve multiple senses, including text, numbers, visuals, sound,
video, kinesthetics, and narrative?
6)
Is it
interesting to students?
7)
Can it be made
readily available on the web?
8)
Is it fun?
Not every resource met
every criterion, particularly #3 on the availability of research assessing its
efficacy, but the ones included were rated highly on most if not all of the
criteria.
Permissions: When PDF files of articles from Teaching Sociology or the American Sociological Review are linked to this site, those files are being used with the permission of the publisher, the American Sociological Association.