Questioning Questions
I struggle mightily with the question of what it’s fair to explore in a philosophy class. First, I teach in a state that recently...
Call for Blog Posts for the Question-Focused Pedagogy Series Written by Current Undergraduate Students
Blog posts due November 22nd, 2024
Please submit them at sschulman@elon.edu.
Students have unique perspectives on teaching and learning that occur in philosophy classes. In addition,...
How I got to Questions
In December 2013, I defended my dissertation. As joyous as it was, it was most notable for sparking the beginning of a pedagogical transformation....
From the Hermeneutic Priority to a Phenomenology of (Shared) Questioning
I. The Hermeneutic Priority of Questioning
How does a sentence heard, seen, or felt transform into a meaning understood? We—linguistically shaped human beings—hear and see...
Where Questions Come From
A lot of emphasis in education is placed on showing what you know. But for at least a decade now, as I’ve thought about...
Introducing the Question-Focused Pedagogy (QFP) Series
“Wait… but Stephen… there are no bad questions.”
And there is it. Even as it has continued to happen, class after class, every time it...