Blog U.: Barefoot Teaching - University of Venus - Inside Higher Ed - 18 views
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Randolph Hollingsworth on 07 Feb 11"it's women who worry most about maintaining "authority," which simply reinforces "patriarchal" teaching methods and squelches critical thinking among students. I know that as a rookie teacher early in my graduate career, I was terrified of losing any control because it would reveal my inexperience. I think that is a fairly common phenomenon for any young teacher (take a look at how harshly grad TAs tend to grade, for example), not just women."