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This page contains links to information about my teaching, including courses I have taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Middle Tennessee State University.

Philosophy of Teaching: A Reluctant Manifesto

To my mind, the most important aspect of this recent professional genre we call "a teaching philosophy" is that it retain a dual sense of the word philosophy: (1) a set of guiding principles that (2) is not fixed but remains open to reasoned inquiry. Thus, I regard my teaching philosophy as a set of principles that function as topics, or places of further thinking. More . . .

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