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A Case for the Case Method: Observations from an Interactive/Democratic Classroom
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Foran, John. 2010. “A Case for the Case Method: Observations from an Interactive/Democratic Classroom”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/a-case-for-the-case-method-observations-from-an.

Abstract

The method is a student-centered, highly interactive pedagogy which changes the classroom process into a collective search for an analysis and/or solution to a specific problem based on a "case." The latter is a text that provides information about a situation, without analyzing it. Students encounter the "facts" much in the same way as historical actors...

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Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
Any Level

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