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Motivation trumps a burning room

November 15, 2011 by John

I recently posted about an effort to get students to understand inequality by discussing it as a room on fire – with the idea that a lucky few will always escape but that the failure of others to escape cannot be written off as a lack of motivation.  This morning, I graded a few rewritten essays and found that students had added a number of structural elements that their initial essays lacked while maintaining individualistic conclusions centered on motivation.

And people say that sociology is common sense!

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Posted in Race, Social Economics, Teaching Tricks | Tagged Inequality as a Room on Fire, Meritocracy, Room on Fire, Social Inequality, Sociological Concepts, Teaching Inequality |

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