By Kim Dugan
If “value-free sociology” was YOUR Facebook status (and we were “friends”) sorry to say I would not “like” it. So too it goes for the so called value-free teaching of social movements. I view it is as impractical, if not impossible. The guiding question then is: To what extent do we faculty advocate for a position or for change? Three things I find guide my pedagogical approach to teaching of social movements: 1) to have and maintain an awareness about which/whose values I am actually promoting, 2) clearly articulating and being transparent about those values, and 3) reaching students where they are/asset-based student learning. Continue reading
Mobilizing Ideas 