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Radical Teaching in Turbulent TimesOn the Edge of the Platform: Tinkering with the 1971 Lecture Class

Radical Teaching in Turbulent Times: On the Edge of the Platform: Tinkering with the 1971 Lecture... [In his final semester at Princeton, Duberman vowed to make his large lecture class more informal. On the bus from New York City, he felt “nervous exhilaration” just before meeting his 200 students. Exhilarated because he would “try to do it all differently, more honestly” and also nervous it might not work. He resolved to restrain his formidable skills as a lecturer in order to encourage discussion. This chapter features previously unpublished excerpts from Duberman’s diary to show the new informality—sitting on the edge of the stage, talking without notes, and sharing his fear of the resurgence of the “smartass, trivial, smug Princeton I’d known in the early 1960s.”] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Radical Teaching in Turbulent TimesOn the Edge of the Platform: Tinkering with the 1971 Lecture Class

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-77058-7
Pages
105 –117
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-77059-4_7
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[In his final semester at Princeton, Duberman vowed to make his large lecture class more informal. On the bus from New York City, he felt “nervous exhilaration” just before meeting his 200 students. Exhilarated because he would “try to do it all differently, more honestly” and also nervous it might not work. He resolved to restrain his formidable skills as a lecturer in order to encourage discussion. This chapter features previously unpublished excerpts from Duberman’s diary to show the new informality—sitting on the edge of the stage, talking without notes, and sharing his fear of the resurgence of the “smartass, trivial, smug Princeton I’d known in the early 1960s.”]

Published: Nov 9, 2021

Keywords: Lecture class; Princeton University; Martin Duberman

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