Join us at the 2024 Central Division Teaching Hub

The 2024 APA Central Teaching Hub is two days of programming focused on the practice of teaching philosophy. Instead of standard academic talks, Teaching Hub sessions are highly interactive and aim to leave participants with concrete and practical strategies. All APA attendees are welcome to come to as many (or as few) sessions as they like to develop relationships with other philosophers who care about teaching, learn from each other, and problem-solve together.

Topics at the this meeting’s hub include excellence in philosophy, feminist pedagogy, philosophy in community colleges, inclusive pedagogy, activism in the classroom, ethics in polarized contexts, and more. The hub concludes with a poster session presenting scholarship of teaching and learning from faculty/graduate students and research projects from undergraduates.

Thursday, February 22, 2024

9:00 a.m.–Noon, Rethinking Excellence in the Philosophy Classroom

Chair: Stephen H. Daniel (Texas A&M University)

Presenters:

  • “Turning Philosophy Inside/Out,” Theresa W. Tobin (Marquette University) and Alexandra Gambacorta (Marquette University) 
  • “Untangled Webs: Seeking Excellence Through Spotting Connections,” James Stacey Taylor (College of New Jersey) and Amy E. White (Ohio University)
  • “Helping Students Rule Technology in the Attention Economy,” Rich Eva (Baylor University)
  • “Making Failure Constructive with Drills,” Gregory M. Novack (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

1:00–4:00 p.m., Feminist Pedagogy

Chair: Claire Lockard (Mount Mary University)

Presenters:

  • “The Emotional Classroom,” Sara Protasi (University of Puget Sound)
  • “Achieving Feminist Learning Objectives Through Consciousness-Raising Assignments,” Sarah Carey (The Pennsylvania State University)
  • “Sharing Power and Responsibility in the Classroom,” Christine Wieseler (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
  • “Teaching Strong Objectivity Through ‘Standpoint’ Activity,” Taraneh R. Wilkinson (University of Cincinnati)
  • “The Medium Is the Message: Teaching Multilingual Feminist Texts to Explain Power in the Classroom,” Marisol Brito (Metropolitan State University)

5:30–8:30 p.m., Teaching Philosophy at Community Colleges

Chair: Ryan Lake (Georgia State University–Perimeter College) 

5:30–6:55 p.m.

Presenters:

  • 5:30–6:20 p.m.: “Cultivating Playfulness through Game-Based Learning,” Rebecca Scott (Harper College)
  • 6:30–6:55 p.m.: “The Many Hats of a Community College Philosophy Professor,” Aaron Wilson (South Texas College)

7:00–8:30 p.m., Invited Panel

Panelists:

Friday, February 23, 2024

9:00 a.m.–Noon, Beyond the Accommodations Letter: Strategies in Inclusive Pedagogy

Chair: Kayla Bohannon (University of North Alabama)

Presenters:

  • “Fully Integrating Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities into the Philosophy Classroom,” Bryan Hall (Regis University)
  • “Three Dimensions of Inclusiveness in an Argument Mapping Course,” Jonathan Surovell (Texas State University)
  • “Old Pedagogical Solutions to New Technological Problems: Disputations as a Response to Generative AI,” Charles Freiburg (St. Louis University)

1:00–4:00 p.m., Activism and the Philosophy Classroom

Chair: Julian Rome (University of Michigan)

1:00–3:00 p.m.

Presenters:

  • “Critical Service-Learning as a Bridge Between Philosophy and Activism,” Andrew Pierce (St. Mary’s College)
  • “Teaching Activism, Facing Ideological Diversity,” Ronni Gura Sadovsky (Trinity University)

3:00–3:50 p.m., Invited Panel: Navigating Controversial Terrain: Teaching Ethics in Polarized Contexts

Panelists:

7:00–8:00 p.m., Closing Reception: Undergraduate Research and Faculty SoTL Poster Session

Organizers: Jane Drexler (Salt Lake Community College) and Adam Thompson (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)

Faculty, Post-Docs, and Graduate Student Posters

  • Dave Concepción (Ball State University), “AAPT Studies in Pedagogy”
  • Kelly Arenson (Duquesne University), “Philosophy of Death & Life In a Cadaver Lab”
  • Maralee Harrell (University of California, San Diego), “Argument Diagrams and Chat-GPT”
  • Kristina Grob (University of South Carolina Sumter), “Teaching with Hemlock: Feminist Pedagogy as Civil Disobedience”
  • Sabina Boudames and Sarah Clairmont (McGill University), “Philosophy & STEM: Overcoming Obstacles to Encourage Enrollment”
  • Micah Lewin (Georgia State University, Perimeter College), “Reclaiming Critical Thinking for the Humanities through Self-Reflexivity”
  • Cassandra Ysobel Teodosio (University of the Philippines), “Kantian Spontaneity and Ethics in AI in the Classroom”

Independent Research by Undergraduates in Philosophy

  • Cecilia Becker, Connor Dull, DeFord Cope, and Dave Concepción (Ball State University), “Undergraduate Research: Writing Revise & Resubmit Letters”
  • Reid Spitler (Southern Methodist University), “Our Personal Issue: The Maternal Impact on Eating Disorders in Women”

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