TY - JOUR AU - Foran, John PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A Case for the Case Method: Observations from an Interactive/Democratic Classroom JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/a-case-for-the-case-method-observations-from-an SP - AB - 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 do – finding them messy, partial, ambiguous. The job of the students, with the professor, is to fashion solutions to the problem through a process of facilitated dialogue. The goals of the method include the development of critical thinking skills, learning through decision making and role playing situations, developingconfidence in defining, confronting, analyzing, and solving problems through interactive discussions, and exercising and developing skills in public speaking and group problemsolving. ER -