This far-sighted volume describes emerging trends and challenges in
university-level social sciences education in an era marked by
globalization, austerity, and inequity. It spotlights solution-focused
and interdisciplinary methods of teaching, developed to match
influential academic ideas, such as self-directed learning and learning
in communities, as students seek to engage with and improve conditions
in their immediate environments. Chapters offer real-world applications
of foundational concepts in the modern practice of teaching, learning,
and curriculum development. Accordingly, the editors emphasize the
relationship between pedagogy and curriculum, as both are critical in
encouraging student autonomyand promoting optimum academic and societal
outcomes.
Included in the coverage:
- Towards a concept of solution-focused teaching: learning in
communities.
- Heutagogy and the emerging curriculum.
- Collaborative working in the statutory and voluntary sectors.
- Delivering a community development curriculum to students with
multiple identities.
- Photography and teaching in community development.
- A model for change: sharing ideas and strategies.
The Pedagogy of the Social Sciences Curriculum will inspire
sociologists, social workers, and health and sociology educators to take
a deeper role in community well-being as students, faculty, and
communities collaborate to make lasting contributions to society.
