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Francis, Roy G. – Teaching Sociology, 1974
Pros and cons of PSI are argued; it is praised as an option for students to select but is opposed as a substitute for the lecture system. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Strategies, Higher Education

Wallace, Ruth A. – Teaching Sociology, 1974
The author describes a teaching innovation in which undergraduates were used to lead weekly discussion sections of lower division sociology courses. The selection process of teaching assistants, student reactions, and possible solutions to potential problems are presented. (Author/DE)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Problems, Higher Education

Dumont, Clayton W., Jr. – Teaching Sociology, 1995
Asserts that western civilization's belief in the differentiation between object and subject impedes a true multicultural discourse. Praises the postmodernist approach, that self-evident reality is actually a politically constructed text, as being useful in identifying subjectivity. Argues for acknowledgment, rather than displacement of,…
Descriptors: Christianity, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change