Sticks and Stones…: Embracing Discomfort to Enhance Learning

Autor/inn/en	Dustin, Daniel; Schmalz, Dorothy; Allen, Lawrence
Titel	Sticks and Stones…: Embracing Discomfort to Enhance Learning
Quelle	In: Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 37 (2022) 3, S.201-207 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Schmalz, Dorothy)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1937-156X
DOI	10.1080/1937156X.2020.1775532
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Graduate Students; Academic Language; Language Styles; Language Usage; Student Reaction; Teaching Experience; Educational Environment; Social Attitudes; Freedom of Speech; Academic Freedom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Sprachstil; Sprachgebrauch; Schülerkritik; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Redefreiheit; Akademische Freiheit
Abstract	In "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure," Lukianoff and Haidt contend that an atmosphere of "safetyism" threatens the university's ability to serve as an arena for free speech and academic freedom. In this paper, we examine their thinking through one professor's uncomfortable experience with graduate students over the question of using gendered personal pronouns in scholarly writing. How the students responded to the professor's apparent insensitivity provides the grist for a larger conversation about how best to create a welcoming and trusting environment for engaging in provocative conversations in the college classroom. The paper concludes by emphasizing the importance of the "principle of charity," encouraging students and professors alike to seek out challenges to their long-held views, freeing themselves from their confirmation biases, and looking for nuance rather than seeing the world through a simplistic us-versus-them mentality. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01