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.

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

• 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)