Plymouth University professor uses words from jessie stomel to test his syllabus. "It's about because i say so" is a quick way to get at assumptions that may be hidden, he says. He also looks for cruelty in the celabi and asks if policies are designed more to punish or support students.
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