{"id":133,"date":"2009-10-13T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/?p=133"},"modified":"2018-10-10T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T15:24:07","slug":"conversation-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation #9: The Controlling Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/audio\/tlee009.mp3\">Conversation #9<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-133-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/audio\/tlee046.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/audio\/tlee046.mp3\">http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/audio\/tlee046.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 115px; padding: 15px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mano Singham\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/images\/manosingham.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"Mano Singham\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A conversation with Dr. Mano Singham of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.case.edu\/\">Case Western Reserve University<\/a> on teaching, learning, and the authoritarian syllabus.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That element of choice and trust between the teacher and the student I think are important aspects of creating a good learning environment, and I think the authoritarian syllabus tends to work against it. Authoritarian syllabuses can achieve certain things. You can get people to <em>do<\/em> things. But you can't get them to <em>want to learn<\/em>. That was my epiphany, if you like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Links referenced in this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacu.org\/liberaleducation\/le-fa07\/le_fa07_myview.cfm\">Death to the Syllabus!<\/a> by Mano Singham in <cite>Liberal Education<\/cite>, Fall 2007<\/li>\n<li>\"Moving away from the authoritarian classroom\" by Mano Singham. <cite>Change<\/cite>, May\/June 2005, pp. 51\u201357. [<a href=\"\/podcast\/documents\/authoritarian-change.pdf\">PDF<\/a> courtesy of the author]<\/li>\n<li>\"How my course syllabus is created\" by Mano Singham. [<a href=\"\/podcast\/documents\/creating-syllabus.pdf\">PDF<\/a> courtesy of the author]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.case.edu\/singham\/\">Mano Singham's Web Journal<\/a>: Thoughts on science, history and philosophy of science, religion, politics, the media, education, learning, books, and films.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><small>We're proud to announce this podcast is a finalist for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podnetwork.org\/\">POD Network<\/a> innovation award. We hope to see you at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podnetwork.org\/conferences\/2009\/\">conference<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Conversation #9 A conversation with Dr. Mano Singham of Case Western Reserve University on teaching, learning, and the authoritarian syllabus. That element of choice and trust between the teacher and the student I think are important aspects of creating a good learning environment, and I think the authoritarian syllabus tends to work against it. <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Conversation #9: The Controlling Syllabus\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[32,187,196,239,307],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-podcast","tag-authoritarianism","tag-learning","tag-mano-singham","tag-teaching","tag-syllabus","h-entry","hentry","h-as-article"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-29","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14894,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/icymi-does-your-syllabus-need-a-makeover\/","url_meta":{"origin":133,"position":0},"title":"ICYMI: Does Your Syllabus Need a Makeover?","author":"Janice Florent","date":"January 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"In an Inside Higher Ed blog post, Travis Grandy, PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, writes, Do you ever feel like you want to get more out of your syllabus? 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