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Teaching Fraught Topics and Handling Hot Moments in the Classroom • FIRST Inclusive Education Presentation
February 9, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Dr. Kevin Gannon (Queens) shares strategies for creating classroom environments in which discussions of topics that are controversial and emotionally laden can be held effectively and inclusively as possible.
Kevin Gannon is Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. He is the author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto (West Virginia University Press, 2020), and his writing has also appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vox, CNN, and The Washington Post. In 2016, he appeared in the Oscar-nominated documentary 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay. His current projects include a textbook on the US Civil War and Reconstruction eras and a critical examination of gateway and survey courses in higher education
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