Teaching with Sociological Imagination in Higher and Further Education

This book uses research and personal stories from university lecturers to explore pedagogical strategies that illuminate how students' minds can be 'switched on' in order to unlock their extraordinary potential. It presents diverse ways to create inspiring learning environments, in chapters written by internationally respected experts in the broad field of the social sciences.
Each author illustrates how - through their unique teaching philosophies and practices - they seek to enhance students' experiences and promote their critical thinking, learning and development. The respective chapters provide conceptual arguments, personal insights and practical examples from a broad range of classrooms, demonstrating various ways in which students' sociological imagination can be brought to life.
As such, the book is both practical and theoretical, and is primarily aimed at educators working in both higher and further educationinstitutions who wish to develop their understanding of classroom pedagogy as well as gain practical ideas for teaching and learning in the social sciences.

Chapter 1 Class talk: Discussing social class with English Undergraduates and sixth-formers.- Chapter 2 Inclusion in education: "A piggy back will do?".- Chapter 3 Learning cultures, reflexivity and creative subversion.- Chapter 4 Breaking the silence: Critical race theory in pedagogy and practice.- Chapter 5 Sociology, inequality and teaching in higher education: A need to reorient our critical gaze closer to home?.- Chapter 6 Twitter as part of an online learning-cultures approach: Exploring a lecturer's and a student-teacher's perspectives.- Chapter 7 'I've felt the tears welling up': Private troubles and public discussions in the sociological classroom.- Chapter 8 Pedagogy of laughter: Using humor to make teaching and learning more fun and effective.- Chapter 9 Moving lessons: Teaching sociology through embodied learning in the HE classroom.- Chapter 10 The sociological imagination and feminist auto/biographical approaches.- Chapter 11 Doing public sociology in the classroom.