269 - Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology Paper Session. Challenges of Teaching the 21st Century Student Body

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Today’s students are very different from the students faculty taught a decade ago, and even more different from the students the typical faculty member remembers from their own days in college. The 21st century student is immersed in social media and other technologies, comes increasingly from less privileged backgrounds, and is balancing an increasingly complex non-school life. Students today often work full-time jobs, juggle family responsibilities, and still take full-time class loads. This session is devoted to papers seeking to develop tools for faculty to successfully teach this increasingly diverse student body. We welcome papers that explore novel ways to connect sociological material to students who often do not look like the students many faculty taught in prior decades, as well as papers that examine this new student body and the challenges they face in the classroom.

Sub Unit

• Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology / Challenges of Teaching the 21st Century Student Body

Session Organizer

• Dustin Avent-Holt, Augusta University

Presider

• Kendra Jason, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Individual Presentations

• Beyond Acceptance: Serving the Needs of Transgender Students at Women’s Colleges - Annie L Freitas, Tulane University

• Our Stories with Class Beyond the Classroom: Story Sharing as Outreach - Colby R. King, Bridgewater State University; Meghan Murphy, Bridgewater State University; Jakari Griffith, Bridgewater State University

• Seeing Race: Teaching Racial Segregation with the Racial Dot Map - Charles F. Seguin, Univerisity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Annette M. Nierobisz, Carleton College; Karen Phelan Kozlowski, University of Southern Mississippi

Discussant

• Stephanie Medley-Rath, Indiana University Kokomo