摘要：Teaching occupies a large component of our scholarship. Each year, each semester, we spend so many hours and so much effort for instruction-related activities: from designing new courses and preparing for lectures to writing recommendations letters for former students to serving on the college-level curriculum development committee. Undergraduate teaching is something that has motivated many, if not all, faculty and graduate students to enter the world of academia. The idea to organize this special issue on Innovation in Teaching Rural Sociology came to my mind at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Rural Sociological Association in Atlanta, GA in 2009 while I was chatting with Professor Alan Barton from Delta State University about our respective papers on servicelearning courses. Despite our passion and investment in undergraduate teaching, we rarely share ideas for innovative teaching techniques among ourselves, particularly among our own peers within the discipline and the field. This special issue was proposed to create an opportunity for sharing such ideas.
