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Teaching about families (and family studies) through research monographs

by Meg Wilkes Karraker, Ph.D., University of St. Thomas

Some of us who teach undergraduates may be reluctant to make a research monograph a central focus of required reading for a family studies course. Conversations with colleagues across the family social science discipline reveal that many of us struggle with how to meet (at least) two different objectives when teaching.

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