Harry,
The 1999 edited volume, The Social World of Higher Education, by Aminzade and Pescosolido is one of my favorites. It has a lot of classic articles that put pedagogy in context, as the title implies. I have enjoyed using John Bean's, Engaging Ideas: The Professors Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom in my graudate class on "Teaching Sociology." bell hooks', Teaching to Transgress is a classic "make you think hard" about why and how you teach. Thanks for the good prompt. I look forward to seeing the replies. Maxine -----Original Message----- From: Harry Mersmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 11:45:17 -0700 Subject: TEACHSOC: best books on teaching/learning/pedagogy My friends, Part of my sabbatical in the Fall will give me the opportunity to read and reflect on this elaborate dance we call teaching/learning/education/pedagogy. I'm interested in hearing from y'all about which two or three books really affected your teaching, made you a better teacher, or made you think long and hard about what we do and how/why we do it. I'll gladly post the assembled responses if others are interested. Yours in the struggle, Harry J. Mersmann San Joaquin Delta College "All the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'." --Ani DiFranco Maxine P. Atkinson, Ph.D. Director, N.C. State's First Year Inquiry Seminar Program Division of Undergraduate Academic Programs, and Associate Professor of Sociology North Carolina State University email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 919 515 9001 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
