Holding Class While Holding Our Breath

Betsy Barre discusses the times when we are holding our breath while holding class on episode 548 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I think we could be more generous when we talk to people who disagree with us about pedagogy and recognize the complexity of the decisions that we’re making.
-Betsy Barre

There’s been a lot of really somewhat heated discourse about whether it’s appropriate to share your views in class, or if that’s a violation of your responsibilities.
-Betsy Barre

Institutions can’t be fully neutral.
-Betsy Barre

Resources

• Holding Class While Holding Our Breath, by Betsy Barre
• Stop Treating Students Like Babies: They are citizens in a democracy, not infants in a nursery
• Teaching: What happened in classes in the days after the election
• We Asked for It: The politicization of research, hiring, and teaching made professors sitting ducks.
• I’m a College President, and I Hope My Campus Is Even More Political This Year by Michael Roth
• Protest and Civil Disobedience Are Two Different Things, by Keith E. Whittington
• 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, by David Yeager
• Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, by Joshua Greene
• The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity, by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason, by Robert B. Talisse & Scott F. Aikin
• Teaching Religion and Upholding Academic Freedom (read what Betsy Barre had to share and she recommends Charles Mathewes essay, especially)