I always spend a lot of time (too much) working up the first several sessions of a course. Right now I think the approach is wrong. Rather than spending several sessions talking about basic concepts and epistemology, maybe it would be better to dive into a substantive issue or two and USE the concepts/epistemology to show how we can make sense of the issue.
Otherwise it seems like forever before we get to something we can sink our teeth into, and I fear the class can't really make sense of the abstractions of concepts. I always try to be governed by "why should we care about this?" as a grounding question and - for example - I have to think that being able to define and give examples of site and situation is of no use in and of itself. How can that be USEFUL in a particular context or contexts?
Not to be too instrumentalizing about it...
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