TEACHSOC: Re: on-line teaching

[Chris Taylor]

What I am suggesting is that we give students what they need without gate keeping and classist assumptions. Chris Lutz Kaelber wrote: By real academic discourse I mean informed assessment of and critical reflection on events or topics relevant to sociology. The information derives from the instructor modeling how to think sociologically, as well as the students reading pertinent texts, which they then discuss or use in an assignment. Real academic discourse is the opposite of "information lite," fed to the students by much of the popular media.   I don't believe you are asking me for an essentialist definition of the term, are you? If you do, I would recommended reading up on the literature on Critical Rationalism, particularly Karl Popper.   Lutz