The authors present a catalog of active-learning techniques aimed at fostering student
learning in the context of a lecture course. The activities they discuss range from listening …

Social stratification may be one of the most difficult topics covered in sociology classes. This
article describes an interactive learning exercise, using a modified version of the game …

Two student groups on the campus of a small liberal arts college in the United States utilized
a role-playing dramatization created by a major international non-governmental …

Purpose. This article investigated the potential of a custom-built board game as a means to
teach historical empathy, improve class participation, and to improve student understanding …

This article examines some of the main threats and new opportunities encountered by
teachers of social inequalities in health in contemporary academia. Focusing mostly on the …

This article discusses an application of the Lewinian/Kolb experiential learning model in the
context of undergraduate participation in the Missouri Community Action Poverty Simulation …

This article introduces a sociology role-playing game (RPG) used to demonstrate the broad
range of social forces, institutions, and structures in a semester-long series of in-class and …

This article reports on a critical discourse analysis of Japanese English as a foreign
language (EFL) students' written reflections on their experience of a simulated racial …

IMAGINE YOURSELF SUPPORTING a family of four on $16,530 a year. Sounds difficult,
does it not? The reality is millions of people struggle at or below this level. The US Census …

Simulation games can help overcome student resistance to thinking structurally about social
class inequality, meritocracy, and mobility. Most inequality simulations focus solely on …