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Reading, Writing, and Sociology?
The General College Vision: Integrating Intellectual Growth, Multicultural Perspectives, and Student Development (2005)
  • Heidi L Barajas, University of Minnesota
  • Walter R Jacobs, University of Minnesota
Abstract

Disciplines such as sociology have not traditionally participated in the developmental education field. Our experience as sociologists working with developmental education professional associations and educators found a particular focus on the three basic skill areas of reading, writing, and mathematics. Beyond identifying sociology as a discipline not manifestly concerned with developmental issues, we have noted that entering the developmental education field has been challenging because a limited focus on reading, writing, and math as skills rather than as disciplines has historically tied the field to a definition of who is developmental. However, developmental education is now also concerned with the generation of discipline-specific learning strategies that support the academic progress of all postsecondary learners, at all levels of the learning continuum. This chapter uses the sociology-specific learning strategies of “Universal Design for Learning” and “the sociological imagination” to provide general developmental opportunities and address a wide range of access issues.

Publication Date
2005
Editor
Jeanne L. Higbee, Dana B. Lundell and David R. Arendale
Publisher
General College and the Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy
ISBN
0-9771869-0-3
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2005 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota by its General College and the Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN.
Citation Information
Heidi L Barajas and Walter R Jacobs. "Reading, Writing, and Sociology?" MinneapolisThe General College Vision: Integrating Intellectual Growth, Multicultural Perspectives, and Student Development (2005)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/walter_jacobs/13/