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Arvanitakis, James – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
In this article I examine the role of the contemporary university in light of the mass increase in class sizes that has occurred on an international scale. While we may look nostalgically back to a time when lectures numbered a few hundred students and tutorials had as few as ten, massification at undergraduate level is an inescapable fact of…
Descriptors: College Role, Class Size, Large Group Instruction, Lecture Method
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Melander, Lisa A.; Wortmann, Susan L. – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2011
Instructors of large, general education lecture courses face a number of student engagement and learning challenges. In this article, we develop and assess an interactive lecture that introduces a theoretical perspective and three related concepts to two introductory sociology general education classrooms (n = 433). This interactive lecture…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Popular Culture, Introductory Courses, Lecture Method
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McLean, Monica; Abbas, Andrea – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
Little is known about what happens to disciplinary knowledge when it is taught in contemporary UK universities of different status. Here, Basil Bernstein's theories are applied to what sociology lecturers say about teaching, demonstrating that in conditions in which students are less likely to engage with sociological theory, lecturers,…
Descriptors: Student Research, Sociology, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Bogardus, Emory S.; And Others – 1978
This publication contains excerpts from published works on the teaching of undergraduate sociology by sociologists known for their contribution to scholarship. In addition to bringing these writings to a broader audience, the series is a reminder that the creation of sociological knowledge and its transmission have been joint concerns of many…
Descriptors: Class Size, Higher Education, Lecture Method, Sociology
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Lewis, Jonathan F. – Teaching Sociology, 1989
Outlines a lecture designed for an introductory sociology course. Explores the ways that cult leaders manipulate their followers. Deals with possible dysfunctions of extremely religious groups of people. Utilizes a card trick to illustrate the ways in which charismatic leaders successfully control their audience. (KO)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Lecture Method
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Dietz, Tracy L. – Teaching Sociology, 2002
Presents a study that investigated the effects of student factors related to course preparation, specifically participation in Learning in Communities (LINC) and technology, on the success of the students in an introductory sociology course. Reveals that attendance and reading required texts were significant predictors of success, while LINC…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
McGee, Reece; Knuckman, Charlene S. – 1969
An Introductory Sociology class enrolling up to 1,000 students per semester was the group used in this experiment to discover empirically validated means of teaching the mass class with both emotional satisfaction to students and pedagogical efficiency. The course was conducted in lecture-discussion style with two lectures and one discussion…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, College Instruction, Higher Education, Large Group Instruction
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Chasteen, Ed – Teaching Sociology, 1987
Lecturing to class each meeting is misuse of widely available instructional resources. Describes how to randomly assign a racial and ethnic identity to each student and how to use the community to invigorate an undergraduate race relations class. Concludes that colleges have been too cognitively oriented and that much can be gained by providing…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Sociology, Ethnic Discrimination, Experimental Teaching
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Fritschner, Linda Marie – Teaching Sociology, 2001
Uses a relational approach to teach about race showing how it effects whites as well as people of color. Reveals differences in attitudes and feelings on race and age. Uses answers from nine questions submitted by each student as a basis for lecture and guided classroom discussion. (DAJ)
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
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Pippert, Timothy D.; Moore, Helen A. – Teaching Sociology, 1999
Describes the instructional functions of multimedia presentation software. Explores the effects of computer multimedia in four large lecture classes in which students, graduate instructors, and a professor responded in journals, on objective tests, in focus groups, and on survey questionnaires. Discusses the results and examines the perspectives…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Research, Higher Education, Lecture Method
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Steen, Sara; Bader, Chris; Kubrin, Charis – Teaching Sociology, 1999
Contends that professors of graduate seminars fail to provide the structure necessary for academic discourse. Describes four models for graduate seminars along with the disadvantages of each model. Discusses the issue of authority in graduate seminars. Provides an example of an effective graduate seminar. (CMK)
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Strategies, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Markowitz, Linda; Hedley, Mark – Teaching Sociology, 2001
Argues that student classroom resistance to the analysis of social inequality and other controversial topics commonly involves their application of norm/other logic to course material. Provides lecture topics, in-class exercises, and homework assignments to assist teachers in helping their students overcome the limitations in norm/other logic.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Educational Strategies, Higher Education
Beausang, Kenneth R. – 1976
The possible difference in the performance on a mid-term and final exam between students taking a quasi-individualized mastery method of instruction and students having traditional lecture-discussion instruction was studied. A second issue examined was the difference between the proportion of students expressing a preference for one method of…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education
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Marulio, Sam – Teaching Sociology, 1998
Investigates undergraduate students' development and sociological learning by comparing two classes of students enrolled in a Race and Ethnic Relations course in which one section utilized service learning and the other was a lecture-discussion course with experiential exercises. Reports that service learning improved student learning in areas…
Descriptors: Course Content, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Benefits, Experiential Learning
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DeLamater, John; And Others – Teaching Sociology, 1994
Maintains that helping to see the personal relevance of course material is an important instructional goal. Discusses student characteristics, instructor characteristics, and the use of discussion groups. Describes four strategies to personalize information presented in large lecture sessions. (CFR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Strategies, Higher Education
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