An Integral Approach Toward Transcending the Pedagogical Matrix: A Sociology Instructor’s Personal Reflection

Online Instructors: Andragogical or Pedagogical Teaching?

This study investigates the andragogical and pedagogical teaching philosophies of online instructors at the California State University, Long Beach in the Spring Semester of 2010. Drawing from reflective adult education theory, this article proposes a new model for this reflective adult education theory. It is either the helping relationship (andragogical philosophy) or the directing relationsh...

An Explanation of the Teacher’s Personal Constructs: The Effects of the English Language Instructors’ Majors on their Orientations toward Teaching Reading Comprehension

This study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in TEFL in comparison to those who have educated in Literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. On a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

Toward an Historical Sociology of Business Culture

Andrew Carnegie had the good fortune to possess contacts among the rich and famous on both sides of the Atlantic, wealth enough to buy the good favor of reporters, and media savvy. But he also had the ill fortune in the 1890s to need all these resources, for in that decade both his public image and his business philosophy were under challenge. At the beginning of the decade bad news kept coming...

" Three Temporalities : Toward a Sociology of the

Toward a Sociology of the Network Society

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