OF STUDENT INTEREST

Winter 10: SOC 459, Seminar on Work
Grad teaching, 2009-10
Student course evaluations
Article on ratemyprofessors
Falling in love
For and against poppies


OF GENERAL INTEREST

Workplace Mobbing
in Academe

Principles of Sociology

Tributes

Online book reviews

Boone's Lick Literature

Academic Governance:
Lessons from Waterloo

Moments in a
Woodland Garden

Chronological list of publications

Site introduction, 2002

INSTITUTIONAL LINKS

Homepage: University of Waterloo
Homepage: UW Sociology
Homepage: Working Centre

Homepage: Waterloo School for Community Development

Profile on UW sociology website

 

S O C I O L O G Y   F O R   D E M O C R A C Y

WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor of Sociology
University of Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
519.888.4567, ext 33660

Updated with quotes for February 2010:

Classic:
The greatest service the teacher can render the student is to increase his freedom — his free range of activity and thought and his power of control.
— Mary Parker Follett, "The Teacher-Student Relation," 1928.

 

Direct:
Reciprocity insists that in the pedagogical scale of values, first place be reserved for every individual student's autonomous intellectual development, whether that is in the direction we approve, or not.
"On Trying Not to Be a Kierkegaardian Professor," Atlanta, Georgia, 1985.

 

 

Garden moment for February 2010: Dawn breaking over Waterloo on the first day of the month.


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First published, 1 September 2002.