Fall 2024 Faculty Reading Community (FRC)

Event Description

Join fellow faculty and CTL staff for sustained cross-disciplinary conversation on critical topics in teaching and learning.

The Faculty Reading Community discussions in Fall 2024 will involve chapters from Kevin Gannon’s book Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto. We are revisiting this popular 2020 book in order to facilitate conversations on the nature of teaching during the current social and political moment. Gannon argues that teaching is by definition emancipatory and hopeful. Taking this axiom as our starting point, how can maximize our positive impact on our students in the classroom?

Participants are required to attend 4 of 5 meetings. Faculty will receive a copy of the book courtesy of the CTL. Seats are limited.

Meeting Mode: This semester’s faculty reading community will meet in person on the Danforth campus (DUC 248). 

• Sept 19: Chapters 1-2 (Classrooms of Death; The Things We Tell Our Students)
• Oct 10: Chapters 3-4 (Cultivating Transformative Teaching; Teaching & Learning Inclusively)
• Oct 17: Chapters 5-6 (Making Access Mean Something; Encouraging Choice, Collaboration, and Agency)
• Oct 31: Chapters 7-8 (A Syllabus Worth Reading; Pedagogy Is Not A Weapon)
• Nov 21: Chapters 9-10 (Platforms and Power; I Don’t Know . . . Yet.)

The reading community will be co-facilitated by Rick Moore, along with faculty member Sabnam Ghosh.

For questions about the Faculty Reading Community, please contact Dr. Rick Moore at rick.moore@wustl.edu.

Registration

Registration for the Spring 2024 Faculty Reading Community has closed. Please contact Rick Moore with any questions: rick.moore@wustl.edu.