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Teaching With Audacity: A Board Game For Urban Studies, Colby King, Matthew Cazessus
Teaching With Audacity: A Board Game For Urban Studies, Colby King, Matthew Cazessus
Sociology Faculty Publications
In order to improve undergraduate students’ mastery of urban theory, we developed an active‐learning module that allows participants to compete with one another in a board game of strategic planning and coalition formation called “AudaCity.” Utilizing a games‐based learning design, the game places players in the roles of adversarial property developers, political actors, and zoning committees all seeking to build and raise rent from developments within a spatially constrained urban grid. Game mechanics such as proximity bonuses and limitations to available space compel players to simultaneously compete against and collaborate with their peers to advance their development agenda while thwarting …
Breaking Away: A Study Of First Generation College Students And Their Families, Howard London
Breaking Away: A Study Of First Generation College Students And Their Families, Howard London
Sociology Faculty Publications
Detailed family histories were taken of students who were the first in their families to go to college. This paper utilizes the psychoanalytic and family systems theory of Helm Stierlin and others to explore (1) how college matriculation for first-generation students is linked to multi-generational family dynamics, and (2) how these students reconcile (or do not reconcile) the often conflicting requirements of family membership and educational mobility. The same modernity that creates the possibility of opportunity for these students is seen also to create the potential for biographical and social dislocation.