Monthly Archives for May 2017


Treading Carefully in Classroom Discussions

In his “Tread Carefully with the Socratic Method,” Rob Jenkins cautions “What if a student takes offense to something we said—perhaps while we were playing devil’s advocate—and accuses us of some form of discrimination?”  Jenkins continues, “On today’s hypersensitized campuses, where in many cases emotional responses have been privileged over intellectual ones, that has become […]