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Stanley Fish

Smart People Podcast

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The Anti Foundationalist Approach to Teaching

I would think that the appropriate distinction would be between what the professor writes and in ways that do display his views, opinions, and perhaps even values. In the classroom, I think you should leave your views and values to the side and devote yourself exclusively to the unpacking or analyzing of the material. And if you do that, you will communicate to your students that that is the job that they should be interested in. At the end of the courses that I teach, no one ever knows where I stand on the big issues that come up in the course of our readings. What I've been doing is explaining how those issues have developed,. which kind of perspectives have been brought forward.

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