The contemporary forces impacticting teachers and teaching are capable of becoming an overwhelming, uncontrollable wave of disaster or an opportunity for practively redesigning teaching at a higher level commitment, performance, and relevance to make and shape critically important intellectual and societal contributions for the future. This symposium aims to galvanize the teachers in post-secondary education to reject the deadly viruses of reactive fear, credentialed complancency, and intellectual regidity in their current stages and replace them with proactive options, alternatives, and designs. More specifically, this introduction clarifies why the respective articles were commissioned to appear in this symposium based on the reasons, concerns and observations that stimulated the Editor to pursue and design a symposium on teaching in the social sciences. The concluding contention of this Introduction is that all teachers can, and must, influence the events is both their personal and professional lives by actively immersing themselves in the values, visions and cultural anchors of their profession, discipline, craft, society, and belief systems. There is no doubtin the Editor's mind that the symposium presentations will add much substance that will help make all of us great teachers

Volume 25

Numbers 9-10