Teaching in Higher Ed

The Public Scholar, with David Perry

Teaching in Higher Ed

Show Notes

David Perry shares about his new book, The Public Scholar, on episode 621 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Quotes from the episode

Teaching is the most important form of public engagement that any of us do.

-David Perry

If we are really practiced at teaching, and as we develop our skills as teachers, those are the skills that can also take us into other spaces outside of the classroom.

-David Perry

Academia is structured around all kinds of failure. Once you recognize that, and then bring yourself into another context where you’re going to experience rejection, you already have the skills to cope with it.

-David Perry

I think all writers, and certainly in academia, worry a lot about our worst faith readers. How do we not get ripped apart? You have to write for your best faith reader. You have to really shift your focus.

-David Perry

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Resources

The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook by David M. Perry

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Kevin Gannon — The Tattooed Professor

Irene Maweu

Higher Love

Pluribus

The Drop Kick Murphys

‘Streets of Minneapolis’: 32 protest songs inspired by the Twin Cities’ ICE resistance

The Neighborhood Kids, “Breaking News”

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