Media coverage
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Media coverage
Title Teaching Philosophy 'Outside the Walls' Media name/outlet Justice Everywhere Media type Blog Date 06/12/2021 Description How do you get undergraduate students excited about philosophy? How do you show students that studying philosophy isn’t just about reading complex discussions about the nature of reality? Philosophy teachers the world over are increasingly facing external pressures – from Rate my Professor to government funding bodies and everything in between – to make their courses popular, engaging, or “useful”. Many are also aware of other factors that may encourage re-thinking the way in which we teach philosophy and to move away from traditional styles of teaching, for instance concerns about accessibility or Western-centrism. One of the things this series, Teaching Philosophy, sets out to do is to canvas different ways of teaching philosophy. We hope that these discussions serve to inspire and provide ideas for those considering adopting different ways of teaching and assessing students.
For this post, we spoke to Dr Sjoerd Griffioen and Dr Merel Semeijn from the University of Groningen (Netherlands) about their module, called Buiten de Muren (Outside the Walls).Producer/Author Dr Sara Van Goozen URL justice-everywhere.org/general/teaching-philosophy-outside-the-walls/ Persons Sjoerd Griffioen