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JANINE DUNCAN, PHD, CO -PRESENTER
CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
FONTBONNE UNIVERSITYAPRIL 14 , 2014
Teaching Controversial Topics in the Classroom: Maximizing Benefits
and Minimizing Risks
Concerns for Examining Issues
PCPersonal Opinion Anti-Intellectual
EnvironmentFear
Parker Palmer Promote others’ identity Seek, promote harmony
Chaos leads to creativity Emergence of new life,
ideas
What it Means to be Educated?
Be Changed.
Becoming an Educated Person**
We need to be open to those who are not like us.
We need to think about the culture in which we live.
We need to use new ideas to understand and
communicate . . . as we move to new times and places.
We need to listen to those outside our community to
hear . . . their perspectives.
We need to exercise reason.**(Based on principles of Catholic Intellectual Tradition)
Creating an Environment of Rapport
The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter
Brown, J. & Issacs, D. (2005)
Sue James (2014), AI Consulting
AI is a process that allows individuals to focus on positive, life-giving conversations rather than focusing on the negative.
The 4 Ds—A Communication Process: Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
AI Applied to Family & Consumer Sciences
Define Topic
Discover New ideas
Dream what might be
Design
Deliver
Define the situation
Discover the different meanings
Offer possibilities
Inform our own practice
Transform us
Creating an Environment of Inquiry
Critical Science PerspectivesA Philosophical Framework for Social
Critique Offers “lenses” that promote questions surrounding
The Common Good Democratic Practices Emancipative Action/Praxis
In Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Introduced by Marjorie Brown (1985)
Creating an Environment of Inquiry:Important FCS Perspectives
Perennial Problems and Evolving Problems
Practical Reasoning Skills—
examine the values, means, and consequences for addressing
human problems through various perspectives
Relies on the learned ability to pose questions:
not simply to identify the facts of the matter,
uncover the potential for “false consciousness,”
revealing contradictory perspectives
how misconceptions are socially perpetuated
“offer an alternative interpretation” plausible to learners.
Creating an Environment of Inquiry
Case Study Use in Education Wasserman, S. (2004). This Teaching Life, p. 125-143, New York: Teachers College Press
Teach students how to: Communicate
effectively
Critically examine issues
Make informed decisions
Respect different views, attitudes, beliefs
Case study questions:
Data gathering
Analysis questions
Values identification
Evaluative
judgments
Calls for plans of
actions
Teachers must: • demonstrate an appreciation for individual
frames/perspectives• Need to be comfortable with uncertainty
Everything is Controversial!
Click icon to add pictureRemember:
The world was once understood to be flat, not round.
Duncan’s Summary
Develop a culture of rapport and respectDevelop an intellectual environment founded
on Disciplinary philosophy and theories Principles of effective dialogue Principles of CST and CIT
Trust yourself Develop comfort with uncertainty Redirect students toward data (exercise reasoning
skills) Redirect students toward intellectual purposes of
university Remind students of classroom culture
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS?
Thank you for listening—