School of Sociology,
ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
IN TUTORING OR DEMONSTRATING
CANDIDATE - HIGHLY COMMENDED
Dr Baptiste Brossard is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology. He combines elements inspired by the Community of Inquiry framework, the Humboldtian model of higher education and Bourdieusian sociology of education to design innovative, creative and experience-focused ways of teaching sociology. This includes the design of a collective-research teaching on utopian literature, the use of video assessments in introductory sociology classes and the implementation of practical experiments in methodology seminars.
"When I teach, I always think of how I felt when I was taught sociology for the first time:
a sudden and somewhat dizzying feeling of awareness."Dr Baptiste Brossard
"Teaching and research are intertwined processes, in which teaching offers an introduction
into the practicality of knowledge production."Dr Baptiste Brossard
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