Toward Socially Just Teaching Across Disciplines, with Bryan Dewsbury

Bryan Dewsbury helps us explore what socially just teaching might look like across disciplines on episode 585 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode I am not interested in being in a war with AI. I’m not trying to be a faculty detective to see who’s using ChatGPT or not, I didn’t sign up for that work. -Bryan Dewsbury I’m not your enemy. I’m not against you. I’m rooting for you every single day. I really mean that. -Bryan Dewsbury The things I say on day one are not going to mean anything over the course of the semester if I don’t give them feedback in a reasonable time or if I’m rude when they answer a question wrong in class. -Bryan Dewsbury The way in which we can interact around this material doesn’t have to be one that’s dictatorial. -Bryan Dewsbury You don’t have to be able to save the world, but you’re obligated to try, right? And so the whole key behind that is in trying, you almost by definition achieve more. -Bryan Dewsbury [/divwrap][divwrap class=”one-half”] Resources Toward a Humanist and Agentic Paradigm of Inclusive Teaching—Lessons from the United States Civil Rights Era for College Pedagogy, by Bryan M. Dewsbury This I Believe – Essay Guidelines The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching Michael Palmer on “Big Beautiful Questions” David Yeager on “Wise Feedback” Eli Review Collaboration with Sarah Cavanagh on Assessment, Feedback, and Grading We Are Lady Parts Abbot Elementary Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, by Yuval Noah Harari [/divwrap]