Interactive Note Taking: Understanding Erving Goffman and Dramaturgy

Abstract

Students engage in an in-class learning experience where they work through a structured note taking activity that allows them to be introduced, learn, apply, and review course material related to Erving Goffman and Dramaturgy. The general idea is that students are given a handout with a blank person outline and associated content areas to take notes...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems, Social Psychology

Resource Type(s):

Assignment, Class Activity, PowerPoint

Class Level(s):

College 100, College 200, High School

Class Size(s):

Any

Usage Notes

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• This can be used at any institution, class, or number of students.
  
• Classes larger than 30 may need students to print their own handouts and bring their own art supplies as distribution of each can take a significant amount of time and incur prohibitive costs for instructors.
  
• The choice of terms can be...

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. Students will be able to:
   1. Identify core concepts of Erving Goffman and Dramaturgy.
   
2. Students will be able to:
   2. Express through speech/words/drawings their understanding of concepts.
   
3. Students will be able to:
   3. Review fellow classmates work to enhance their learning.
   

Goal Assessment(s):

1. Assessment of student learning and meeting the learning objectives occurs primarily through in-class discussion and review as well as instructor evaluation of handouts.
   
   • Instructors can collect the handout at the end of class and review to see if students have the correct definitions and have applied the content correctly to their occupation...