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Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Utility, Principle, Virtue -- 2 Particularism -- 3 Perception and Representation -- 4 Imagination and Metaphor -- 5 Aesthetic Illumination -- 6 Art and Truth -- 7 Literary Expression -- 8 Aristotle and Jane Austen -- 9 Directions -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

"Encompassing feminism, masculinities and queer theory, and drawing on film, literature, language, creative writing and digital technologies, these essays, from scholars experienced in teaching gender theory in university English programmes, offer inventive and student-focused strategies for teaching gender in the twenty-first century classroom"--

In 2004 Wright et al. issued a challenge to sociologists, to examine 'the effect of the structure of the academy on teaching and learning outcomes' (2004: 155). In this paper I take up this challenge, beginning with a short overview of the changing Irish higher education context, highlighting three macro level changes that currently impact on teaching sociology in Ireland. I argue that such a structural lens is essential to our understanding of the meso (institutional and disciplinary) levels of teaching sociology. I argue a nascent 'teaching and learning movement' in Irish sociology may be emerging. A number of factors that have facilitated this are identified. However even a quick glance at Irish higher education also reveals contradictions and conflicts which threaten this movement before it is even established, including worsening staff-student ratios, increased casualisation of teaching and the neo-liberal turn. The paper concludes with a call for more sociologically informed work both on teaching and learning in Irish higher education, and on teaching sociology. This would enable more informed involvement in critical debates around teaching excellence at the national and institutional levels. It would also make public pedagogies currently in use for teaching sociology in Ireland.

In The Boy in Striped Pyjamas when Bruno dons his striped uniform, he notices that it smells. He wears the clothes of a dead prisoner, timeworn and never washed. His authentic self is masked and he is doomed. Each teacher, unless alert to possibilities of what might be, can become lost in a moral morass of policy and pedagogy, blindly donning the cast offs of a system that has never worked and is failing faster and more spectacularly than ever before. We are sold a line that the clothes just need starch. We need new clothes. We need them now. Immorality and deception. Arrogance and greed. Misc

This article presents a hypothetical series of letters from an anonymous social work student at Flinders University describing their learning. The student is writing to Charles–Louis de Sécondat, Baron de la Br ède et de Montesquieu, in keeping with the Baron's famous, anonymously published Lettres persanes (Persian Letters). The student's letters highlight the progress of education in general and social work education in particular from the 18th Century to the present time. They illustrate the author's approach to teaching and learning, and some of her strategies for effectively teaching social planning and social work ethics.Montesquieu wrote his Lettres persanes in 1721 as a vehicle for commenting on life and culture in contemporary France. This paper presents a series of hypothetical letters to Montesquieu from a social work student at Flinders University describing her learning. These letters were presented at the Australian Universities Teaching Committee National Teaching Forum in 2002 to convey the educator's approach to teaching. While the letters conclude with a peroration in which the educator outlines the conceptual framework underlying her teaching, the article concludes with a reply from 'Montesquieu' on the letters and the student's response.

What is white privilege? -- Why is teaching about white privilege to white students so -- Difficult? -- The class setting, pedagogical goals and theoretical frames -- Applying the dialogic approach -- Assessment, findings and evaluation -- Conclusion.

"Teaching Genocide" published on by Oxford University Press.