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

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.

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)

Holding Class While Holding Our Breath

Teaching in Higher Ed

Holding Class While Holding Our Breath