Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology
Sixth Edition
Video and Multimedia
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Video Links:
- 11.1 Students and Learning
Description: This video from Ted Talks highlights Peter, a school principal with a radical solution—no school bell, no school levels, staff selection and curriculum is even decided by students. Result? No bullying, collaboration, innovation in school dynamics.
- 11.2 Medicating Kids
Description: As the debate over medicating children continues to grow, FRONTLINE confronts psychiatrists, researchers, and big pharma about the risks and benefits of prescription drugs for troubled children.
- 11.3 Creativity in Schools
Description: Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Audio Links:
- 11.2 Bureaucracy in Schools
Description: The true story of little-known rooms in the New York City Board of Education building. Teachers are told to report there instead of their classrooms. No reason is usually given.
- 11.3 Discipline in Schools
Description: Stories of schools struggling with what to do with misbehaving kids. There's no general agreement about what teachers should do to discipline kids. And there's evidence that some of the most popular punishments actually may harm kids.
Web Resources:
- 11.1 Education: Good for Society
Description: People who attend universities are less likely to commit crime, drink heavily or smoke, according to a new database of evidence on the social benefits of higher education.
- 11.2 School Funding
Description: According to a recent report by the Education Law Center in most states the public school funding remains unfair and inequitable, depriving millions of U.S. students of the opportunity for school success.
- 11.3 Financial Aid
Description: This article by Contexts Magazine takes a look at some of the issues regarding financial aid in higher educational institutions.
- 11.4 Early Childhood Education
Description: This article from Pacific Standard Magazine examines the benefits of a universal Pre-K program in the U.S. educational system.