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Snowden, Monica – Teaching Sociology, 2004
This paper discusses learning communities as pedagogy for introductory sociology courses, which are often plagued by student apathy. Most importantly, it examines the potential for learning communities to incorporate active and collaborative learning techniques as a vehicle to subvert dominant views of diversity, to see diversity as intersecting…
Descriptors: Student Role, Cooperative Learning, Sociology, Teaching Methods