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Section on Teaching & Learning in Sociology Members:

Winter 2008

Dear Colleagues:

When she was chair of the section, Diane Pike, exhorted us, “If you teach, you belong.” And so I would like to welcome all who belong, both continuing and new members, and I’d like to remind everyone to renew their membership in ASA and the section. Please invite new members as well. Our section continues to grow and Susan St. John-Jarvis, chair of our membership committee, would be happy to send our section flyers on request.

Belonging is a very important way to stay in touch with the discipline as we make Sociology come alive for our students. Sharing teaching methods and tips can help us refresh our own instruction as well as our own work and research. I really believe that there is a strong connection between what and how we teach and our own scholarship. They nourish each other as we continue to bring sociological theory, research, and concepts into the classroom often using our own work as illustrations of how good sociology is performed. The section and its members offer a network to help support each of us in our teaching so we can be both good sociologists and good teachers.

Belonging also gives us the opportunity to attend the section-sponsored pre-conference in Boston. Kate Linnenberg will be gathering a number of our members to share their experiences and expertise with us.  I hope many of you can attend. Since our section day is the first day of ASA, the pre-conference would be an easy and convenient way to ease into the full ASA program. And our Summer program for Boston is shaping up nicely as you can see from the Call for Papers from our program committee chaired by Betsy Lucal who is also our Chair-elect. Details on all our activities in Boston will be forthcoming on our listerv and in our excellent newsletter edited by Kathy Rowell. I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank past chair, John Zipp, for all his hard work during the past year and for his great help and support for the section.

I look forward to working with all of you this coming year and hope to see you in Boston.

Susan A. Farrell, Kingsborough Community College
Section Chair, 2007-2008

Many thanks to HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE'S GRAPHICS DEPT. for their development of the new logo.

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