Toward Cruelty-Free Syllabi, with Matthew Cheney

Matthew Cheney describes Cruelty-Free Syllabi on episode 296 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

A lot of my work, a lot of my career, and a lot of the moments that were most tense were moments where I had forgotten to trust students.
-Matthew Cheney

Respect students as human beings.
-Matthew Cheney

Students don’t enter a classroom immediately trusting a teacher.
-Matthew Cheney

We get used to a bureaucratic academic language that we oftentimes just inherit .
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Resources Mentioned

• David Rhoads – hyflex learning
• Jesse Stommel
• Opening a Syllabus
• Cruelty-Free Syllabi
• Radical Open Syllabi
• Why My Students Design the Syllabus #fight4edu, by Cathy Davidson
• Extreme Makeover: Pedagogy Edition, by Robin DeRosa
• Ungrading Workshop Resources
• Sara Goldrick-Rab

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