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Teaching Social Science as a Language: From Terroriser to Gatekeeper of Understanding (Enghish version)

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  • N.A.J. TAYLOR

    (Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at the University of Queensland, and Casual Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management, La Trobe University)

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Undergraduates are seldom taught how to be a student of the Social Sciences. The lack of emphasis on teaching Social Science as a language is an oversight of many of its scholars to equip their students with the skills necessary to usefully engage the literature. Quite apart from many excellent courses in research design for final year honors students, I argue that all students should be afforded the same opportunity to engage and reflect on what it is to be a social scientist as they do its theories and findings. This note aims to empower the student with confidence in interpreting and marshaling the literature, by dipping into a select number of texts that usefully ask: how do I sustain a reasoned argument? I argue it is through developing effective reading and writing skills that penetrate texts to uncover their central meaning, rather than be ‘terrorized by the literature’.

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  • N.A.J. Taylor, 2011. "Teaching Social Science as a Language: From Terroriser to Gatekeeper of Understanding (Enghish version)," Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - Sectiunea Stiinte Sociale/ Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty - Section: Social Sciences, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 1, pages 327-332, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev17s:v:1:y:2011:i::p:327-332
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    Essay writing; Academic reading; Literature;
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    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate
    • Y80 - Miscellaneous Categories - - Related Disciplines - - - Related Disciplines

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