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Join Instructional Development at the Teaching & Learning Excellence Series: TALES Live!, on May 22. Dr. Salim Yaqub from the History Department will discuss the importance of empathy and how to help students gain a more rounded understanding of controversial issues.
Do you want to learn from some of the most outstanding teachers at UCSB? Then join Instructional Development at the Teaching & Learning Excellence Series: TALES Live!, which highlights compelling stories of creativity, inspiration, and engagement in UCSB teaching. The final speaker for the series this quarter will be Dr. âSalim Yaqub from the History Department.
Analysis and Empathy: Helping Students Gain More Rounded Understandings of Controversial Issues
When: May 22, 3-4 p.m.
Where: HSSB (McCune Hall), Room 6020
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How can we help students both feel from the inside and see from the outside? How can we empower them to grasp, at one and the same time, not just the breadth of complex social and political issues but also the subjective experiences of individuals caught up in those issues? This talk uses a simulated class exercise on the Vietnam War involving analysis, dramatization, empathetic reconstruction, and debate to discuss and model strategies for encouraging students to think in such differing registers.
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