Lifestory: A Device for Dispersing Authority in the Introductory Course.

Stoddart, Kenneth

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Publication Date: 1991

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Lifestory: A Device for Dispersing Authority in the Introductory Course.

Stoddart, Kenneth

Teaching Sociology, v19 n1 p70-73 Jan 1991

Teaches an introductory course on issues of prejudice and discrimination. Assigns a two-essay autobiography and analysis of other student biographies. Encourages students to use their life experiences to articulate sociology's theoretical, conceptual, and substantive materials. Finds course effective in reducing ethnocentrism. (NL)

Descriptors: Autobiographies, Course Descriptions, Educational Strategies, Ethnocentrism, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Racial Bias, Sociology, Student Experience, Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Assignments

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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