Learning Through Conversation | Agnes Callard (Teaching Better)

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Ethics and Education

The Center for Ethics & Education

40 episodes

6 days ago

How should we be thinking about ethical questions in education? Conversations and features with philosophers and education researchers. From classroom dilemmas to policy decisions, K-12 through higher ed. We also make teaching guides to use in sociology, education, and philosophy classes. Available on our website. Produced by the Center for Ethics and Education in WCER at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thanks to funding from the Spencer Foundation.

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Learning Through Conversation | Agnes Callard (Teaching Better)

Ethics and Education

30 minutes 57 seconds

4 years ago

Learning Through Conversation | Agnes Callard (Teaching Better)

What can we learn from conversation that we can't learn on our own? Agnes Callard (Philosophy, University of Chicago) talks about the paradox of learning through conversation, the secret to asking a good question, chatting with the ghost of Aristotle, and that time her lecture notes were stolen and it ended up being a good thing for her teaching.

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Boat thinking (Kant)
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Pairs well with: Reasoning by Anthony Simon Laden

Recorded in Chicago, July 2021.

Thanks to Agnes Callard and Sol Miller.

Producer: Carrie Welsh. Music is "Wavy Glass" and "Good Times" by Podington Bear, used under a creative commons license.