Navigating the Need for Rigor and Engagement: How to Make Fruitful Class Discussions Happen
By Harry Brighouse Derek Bok’s great book Our Underachieving Colleges contains a passage that, ultimately, transformed my teaching. Teaching by discussion can also seem forbidding because it makes instructors uncomfortably aware of their shortcomings. Lecturers can delude themselves that their courses are going well, but discussion leaders know when their teaching is failing to rouse […]
