Knowing When to Teach Current Events; 5 questions faculty members should ask themselves before they weave a recent controversy into their courses

Knowing When to Teach Current Events; 5 questions faculty members should ask themselves before they weave a recent controversy into their courses

Revising a syllabus to include popular culture and current events is not always in the service of the course or in the best interest of students. Not all news events are easily incorporated into every classroom, and it's easy for a professor inexperienced in handling sensitive topics to do more...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-09, Vol.61 (4)
1. Verfasser: Rooks, Noliwe M
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Black Studies
Brown, Michael
Classrooms
College teachers
Contemporary problems
Course Descriptions
Current Events
Graduate Study
Higher education
Management
National Competency Tests
Police
Popular culture
Practice
Race
Racial Segregation
Resistance (Psychology)
Social Media
Study and teaching
Suburbs
Syllabi
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Zusammenfassung:Revising a syllabus to include popular culture and current events is not always in the service of the course or in the best interest of students. Not all news events are easily incorporated into every classroom, and it's easy for a professor inexperienced in handling sensitive topics to do more harm than good.
ISSN:0009-5982
1931-1362