Affiliation:
1. Kathleen McKinney is the K. Patricia Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. McKinney has numerous scholarly publications in the areas of relationships, sexuality, sexual harassment, and college teaching. She is a past editor of Teaching Sociology and was also a Carnegie Scholar. She has received several teaching awards including Illinois State University's Outstanding University Teacher, the ASA Section on Teaching and...
Abstract
In this article I report on the common themes derived from three small-scale qualitative studies that focused on how sociology majors believe they learn our discipline. These studies include a group interview, analysis of content in learning logs, and individual face-to-face interviews. Based on the results of these studies, five types of connections appear critical to student learning in sociology: to others, those among related ideas or skills, to students' lives, across courses, and to the discipline. In addition, students were at different points on three overlapping pathways of learning: level of success in the major, use of surface-deep approaches, and degree of novice-expert learning. I also offer implications and suggestions for teaching, sociology programs, and future research.
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Education
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