E55: Syllabus with William Germano and Kit Nicholls

Decay of Discourse

Origins of the Term Syllabus • What Could a Syllabus Be? • Time and Permission to Think • Figuring out what the Questions Will Be • Learning How to Learn • Teaching and Storytelling • Telling Someone Something They Do Not Know is Not Teaching • Technology Altering What Education Means • Teachers, Students, and the Classroom: A Community • Syllabus as Social Contract • A Design For Student Work • Syllabus and Administrative Policies • On Various Perspectives In Regards to the Syllabus • Syllabus and the Inquiry Method • On the Flexibility of the Syllabus I typically record an introduction to each episode, but my reflections on this discussion were entirely too long to serve as a suitable introduction to a podcast. Therefore, I will be releasing my introduction as a blog article and sent out as part of the Dirty History Podcast newsletter. Check out more @ dirtyhistorypod.com William Germano and Kit Nicholls' book, Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything was released by Princeton University Press on October 20th. Check it out @ https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691192208/syllabus & https://www.amazon.com/Syllabus-Remarkable-Unremarkable-Document-Everything/dp/0691192200