The Professor, Pluralism, and Pedagogy: A Reflection
| Autor: | Michelle D. Deardorff |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Political Science Education. 9:366-373 |
| ISSN: | 1551-2177 1551-2169 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15512169.2013.796252 |
| Popis: | This essay discusses concrete approaches for faculty to use when teaching a student body whose demographics and cultural backgrounds are significantly different from that of the professor. As a white political scientist from the north teaching at a historically black university in the south, this work is particularly concerned with the dynamics of race and gender. However, the lessons from this essay are applicable to all of us who need to construct space in which our students can challenge their own preconceived notions. If the United States and other pluralistic democracies claim that our very strength is found in the sharpening of our individual interpretations against competing ideas to best approximate the truth, how can we replicate this process in our increasingly diverse classrooms? What might this dynamic look like when the professor at the front of the room is radically different in significant ways from the students he or she teaches? For our classroom this means that pluralism must be real. It... |
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