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Teaching Conservatives, Liberals, AND Libertarians

Phenomenology in Education Research TeamThe University of Tennessee

Deepa Deshpande, Karen Franklin, Brenda Murphy, Russell Patterson, Kristina Plaas, Brian Sohn, Kathy Greenberg, Neil Greenberg, Howard Pollio, and Sandra Thomas

A Conversation

Can Teaching Overcome Cultural Bias?

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What Scientists Really Do by Priyamvada Natarajan in New York Review of Books October 23, 2014:

Evolution Trust Science

Americans’ Beliefs

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Do we ignore the role of intuition at our peril? Does intuition contribute to classroom learning?If so, what about our job of covering course content?

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Freud: "Itzig, wohin reit’st Du?" Itzig: "Weiss ich, frag das Pferd."

Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 7 July 1898, in Aus den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse (Origins of Psychoanalysis, 1950:275)

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Principles for Teaching/Learning:

1. Intuitions come first, reasoning second

2. There’s more to [learning] than analytical reasoning & categorizing

3. Intuition binds & blinds our ability to explore alternative views

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Your brain on autopilot…

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Reason is the servant of intuition

Individuals reason to justify beliefs.

Can I believe it? Yes (When it supports my beliefs.)

Must I believe it? No (When it does not support my beliefs.)

Haidt, 2012

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All my knowledge of the world, even my scientific knowledge, is gained from my own particular point of view, or from some experience of the world without which the symbols of science would be meaningless.

Phenomenology of Perception

Merleau-Ponty, 1962

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Biases

Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic

The WEIRDer you are, the more you see a world full of separate objects, rather than relationships (Haidt, 2012)

(Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010)

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Intuition binds & blinds our ability to explore alternatives

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A Conversation…

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Some Suggestions

“My side” and “other side” reasoning (D. Perkins re J. Haidt)

Check-ins (Linda Hill)

Listening to be influenced (Ralph Brickey)

“Say more” –don’t finish other’s sentences (John Peters)

Ask, don’t tell (Bea Fisher)

Class reflections: What stands out? (Howard Pollio)

Worldles

Deep descriptions of personal experiences illustrating course content (Howard Pollio)

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Phenomenology in Education Research TeamPERT

Instructional planning Classroom climate Student and instructor experiences Ethological study of classroom interaction

Weaving perceptions with course content

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Principles of a Phenomenological Approach

Safety

Personal Experience

Guidance

Openness