The Center for Ethics and Education creates audio pieces to give faculty and students the tools to bridge philosophy and education. This audio is available for download and is intended for use in undergraduate and graduate education classes, and by anyone interested in ethics and education.
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What Should the Aims of Higher Education Be? (Higher Ed)
What should the aims of higher education be? We asked undergrads, grad students, and philosophy professors what they think.
The Ethics of Teacher Strikes | Tony Laden and Eleni Schirmer (Controversial Issues in Education)
Philosopher Tony Laden explores the ethical dimensions of teachers union strikes with labor scholar Eleni Schirmer.
Love and Teaching | Meghan Sullivan and Maria Salazar (Teaching Better)
Meghan Sullivan and Maria Salazar in conversation about what it means to love your students and why more philosophers should study love.
Educational Opportunity with Jencks’s Principles of Justice | Jaime Ahlberg (Popular Papers)
We talk with philosopher Jaime Ahlberg about navigating Christopher Jencks’s theories of educational justice.
The Ethics of Punishment | John Tillson and Winston C. Thompson (Controversial Issues in Education)
How and why should we punish schoolchildren–if at all?
Learning Through Conversation | Agnes Callard (Teaching Better)
What can we learn from conversation that we can’t learn on our own? With philosopher Agnes Callard.
Humor, Movement, and Multimedia | Jen Kling (Teaching Better)
Philosopher Jen Kling talks about all the themes of our 2021 teaching series: philosophy as both a skillset and a disposition, finding an entry point for students new to philosophy, and using games to teach social contract theory. She has a lot of fun in the classroom.
Being in Love with Knowledge | Bailey Szustak (Teaching Better)
Bailey Szustak is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In this episode, Bailey talks about teaching new philosophy students in a way that helps them feel at ease with and compelled by philosophy. After all, that’s what the word ‘philosophy’ means–a love of knowledge.
Interactive Methods and Feminist Critiques | Susan Kennedy (Teaching Better)
At CEE, we think a lot about good teaching. This is the second episode in our 2021 Teaching Series. In this episode, Susan Kennedy talks about teaching non-canonical texts, using games to teach feminist critiques of social contract theory, teaching students how to conference, and offers some advice for teaching STEM students.
Argument and Curiosity as Skills | W. John Koolage (Teaching Better)
Teaching, Indoctrination, and Trust | Tony Laden (Controversial Issues in Education)
Who do you trust? Are universities trustworthy? Professors? What about students? Philosopher Tony Laden (UIC Chicago) is writing a book about democracy. He sees higher ed as a way to think about trust networks and broader questions about how we talk to each other.