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LC2: Difficult Knowledge & Inclusive Teaching (for grad students)
10/31/2022 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
CTLgrads Learning Community: “Would You Ever Teach This?” Difficult Knowledge and Inclusive Teaching in the Classroom (Session 2) – for graduate students
This two-part, multidisciplinary Learning Community is designed to reflect on how to deal with difficult knowledge in today’s classroom. “Difficult knowledge” — contents which cause students to analyze social trauma (Britzman 1998) — has progressively moved to the foreground of pedagogical discourse, as it interests every discipline. However, there still is some skepticism towards difficult-knowledge issues, which are often covered by the “knowledge-is-objective” claim.
Participants in this Learning Community will engage with concepts constituting “difficult knowledge” in various disciplines and prepare a portfolio or lesson plan to incorporate teaching practices that address these subjects within their own classrooms. In doing so, participants will gain a better understanding of how to address pressing ideological issues in their teaching and how to incorporate them in their teaching. Graduate instructors in all disciplines are welcome to participate in this Learning Community.
This two-part Learning Community will meet in-person and is designed and facilitated by Valerie Hsieh and Valeria Spacciante, Senior Lead Teaching Fellows at the Center for Teaching and Learning. Participants should register for and attend both sessions of this LC. Registration for Session 1 on Monday 10/24, 2:30-4pm, is available here. Each session of this LC counts as a Pedagogy Workshop for the Teaching Development Program (TDP). See the TDP FAQs for more information about obtaining credit for this and other graduate student-led events through the CTL.
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