i was giving a presentation on this recentlyad and somebody asked me afterwards. He said, i love all these ideas, but what about the students whose family members are always dying? I thought, well, it seems to me that there's something else going on' 'I would rather take the chance of being gullible and having a student lie to me about a family member dying, than take the other chance,' she says. We have these assumptions in mind, our students are at the centre,. We respect them and we trust them.
Matthew Cheney describes Cruelty-Free Syllabi on episode 296 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A lot of my work, a lot of my career, and a lot of the moments that were most tense were moments where I had forgotten to trust students.
-Matthew Cheney
Respect students as human beings.
-Matthew Cheney
Students don’t enter a classroom immediately trusting a teacher.
-Matthew Cheney
We get used to a bureaucratic academic language that we oftentimes just inherit .
-Matthew Cheney