Jenny White
@whitejenny.bsky.social
Social anthropologist, novelist. Write about Turkish history, culture, politics, religion, gender, nationalism. Also Ottoman Empire (fiction). Emerita, live in Sweden. Love good literature, nature, science, art. jennywhite.net #Writer
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Or, to put it another way, debate, in the sense of the formal or informal defense of largely fixed positions, comes quite low in my list of goals/priorities as a history teacher.
Most college classes are not "free speech fora" but highly structured contexts that allow experts to help students/
Most college classes are not "free speech fora" but highly structured contexts that allow experts to help students/
September 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Or, to put it another way, debate, in the sense of the formal or informal defense of largely fixed positions, comes quite low in my list of goals/priorities as a history teacher.
Most college classes are not "free speech fora" but highly structured contexts that allow experts to help students/
Most college classes are not "free speech fora" but highly structured contexts that allow experts to help students/