Watch videos of impassioned teacher-scholars on how they make texts accessible and engaging, how they encourage students to reflect on civic responsibilities, and the motivations they bring to reinvigorating the role of the humanities in general education.
Heather Ohaneson, Director of the Liberation Scholars at George Fox University, on how she teaches Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University, on how he teaches Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan to high school students.
Roosevelt Montás, Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Columbia University, on how he teaches transformative texts to high school students, lifting up W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk as an example.
Bryan Garsten, Professor of Political Science and the Humanities and Chair of the Humanities Program at Yale University on how he teaches Plato’s “Apology”.
Roosevelt Montás explains how to teach transformative texts for an emancipatory education.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta on how he teaches Cicero’s Speech in Defense of the Poet Archias.
Roosevelt Montás on how he teaches What to the Slave is the Fourth of July by Frederick Douglass.
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