The distressing events of 2020 challenged the United States to reimagine how our social institutions can and should respond to demands for racial justice. These demands impacted higher education and debates arose about whether the classroom is an appropriate place for teaching abolition. I address this debate by introducing a senior-level elective course, Policing in the American City, to explore how abolitionist pedagogy can guide our teaching, learning, and doing sociology alongside our students. I begin with a brief grounding in abolition and then introduce virtual community-based learning (VCBL) as an ideal medium to facilitate abolitionist pedagogy in the classroom. Next, I provide preliminary insights into the use of VCBL to illustrate how it helped students develop critical skills, mobilize their learning, and benefit community partners. Throughout, I call on instructors to consider how online education, service learning, and public sociology can align with abolitionist practices to create communities of care in our classrooms and empower students to engage abolition as praxis beyond their college years.

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废除作为实践和基于虚拟社区的学习

2020 年的令人痛心的事件挑战美国重新构想我们的社会机构如何能够并且应该如何回应种族正义的要求。这些要求影响了高等教育，引发了关于教室是否适合废除教学的争论。我通过介绍高级选修课程“美国城市的治安”来解决这场辩论，以探索废奴主义教育学如何与学生一起指导我们的教学、学习和做社会学。我首先简要介绍了废除死刑，然后介绍了基于社区的虚拟学习 (VCBL) 作为在课堂上促进废除死刑的理想媒介。接下来，我将提供有关 VCBL 使用的初步见解，以说明它如何帮助学生发展关键技能、调动他们的学习能力并造福社区合作伙伴。