Episode 183 - Who Owns Your Education?: Katherine Turpin
Dialogue on Teaching, Wabash Center’s podcast series, is hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., Director of the Wabash Center. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcasts focus upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, university, seminaries, as well as the publics impacted by these schools. Dialogues with faculty and administrators working in the wide range of institutional contexts illumine the complexity of teaching and the teaching life.
To whom are you obligated when you complete your degree? If education is for the public good – then what does it mean that public education promotes and forms individualism? What is the purpose and aim of public education, of higher education? What if the policing of teaching is detrimental to the thriving of a democratic republic? What would it mean to promote communal values in classrooms bound to shaping individualistic mindsets?