Since the students who wrote the evaluations will not be in the class they will not benefit from the change. Any way learning is not about the material...... it is what you (the students) do with it. Why not try a change of pace with a classic....The Jack Roller?
See what they can learn from it. One of our tasks is to prepare students to solve problems and perform tasks that have not yet been identified...... so time and place are relative......E=MC2 Del Learning Kennon Rice wrote: > Last spring I taught a seminar course titled "ethnographies in crime and > deviance." It was a great success and a pleasure to teach. One of the six > books I required was "New Jack." I thought this would be an interesting > change of pace for students since it was an ethnography of law enforcement > personnel instead of the offender (although the lines blur some in this > account). > > The students, however, requested in their course evaluations that I replace > this book with an ethnography of inmates instead of one of the officers. > > I'm not sure if it would be better to replace it with such a piece, or > merely pair it with one, but I'm willing to entertain their suggestion. > > Anyone have a GOOD ethnography of prison life to recommend? > I'm looking for something truly sociological/anthropological not a > one-dimensional, highly ideological piece. > > Kennon > > > Dr. Kennon Rice > Department of Sociology > Albright College > P.O. Box 15234 > 13th and Bern Streets > Reading, PA 19612-5234 > (610)921-7881 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
