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Student-centered Pedagogy and Real-world Research: Using Documents as Sources of Data in Teaching Social Science Skills and Methods.
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Peyrefitte, Magali, and Gillian Lazar. 2018. “Student-Centered Pedagogy and Real-World Research: Using Documents As Sources of Data in Teaching Social Science Skills and Methods”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, March. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/student-centered-pedagogy-and-real-world-research.

Abstract

This teaching note describes the design and implementation of an activity in a 90-minute teaching session that was developed to introduce a diverse cohort of first-year criminology and sociology students to the use of documents as sources of data. This approach was contextualized in real-world research through scaffolded, student-centered tasks focused on...

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Subject Area(s):
Research Methods
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Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any

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