Gender and Cultural Differences in the classroom

Thanks for a great meeting last week! We had a very lively discussion about, well, discussions. There was interest in pursuing gender and cultural differences, highlighted by Chapters 7 and 8, for the next couple of months, and one book that was discussed in the Brookfield and Preskill book was Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand. Even though it's not directly about pedagogy, we thought it would be useful to understand the differences in discourse as a way to understand discussion dynamics. This book is widely available in local libraries as well as at Stanford library. Another book that was discussed was Maher and Tetreault's "The Feminist Classroom" which was mentioned a few times in our previous book and is also available in the Stanford library. I know some people had already read the Tannen book, so how about for our January meeting, we'll discuss both, and each of us can pick which book to read.

I forgot to include the link to that blog post that I mentioned at our meeting last week about a British professor's "tips" on surviving academia. Here it is.

Our meeting will be on the first Thursday of the quarter, January 10 at 8am. I'll confirm location by e-mail closer to the date, but I'm pretty sure we'll be at A3C (Old Union Ballroom) again.

Have a great holiday break!