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Teaching Sociology: Toward Collaborative Social Relations in Educational Situations

University of Tampere, Finland, Juha.Suoranta{at}uta.fi

In this article I argue that pedagogical reform is needed in the current Westernized teaching of sociology to create a new, more equal, humane and ecologically sound world. Present teaching methods encourage instrumental approaches to studying and learning. As a result, students seem to have grown indifferent to learning, becoming mere reflections of their study environment. In confronting the needed pedagogical reform, I focus on the smallest particle of higher education — the structure of the teaching and learning process in the sociology classroom, and suggest the implementation of collaborative learning situations.

Key Words: collaborative learning • critical pedagogy • public sociology • teaching methods • teaching sociology

Critical Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 5, 709-723 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0896920508093364


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