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Radical Honesty: Truth-Telling as Pedagogy for Working Through Shame in Academic Spaces

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In this essay, Professor Bianca C. Williams outlines her pedagogy of truth-telling in the classroom, which features a practice of reading “positionally statements” to students on the first day of class. Click below for the PDF:

Bianca C. Williams – “Radical Honesty: Truth-Telling as Pedagogy for Working Through Shame in Academic Spaces” (PDF)

Citation: Williams, Bianca C. “Radical Honesty: Truth-Telling as Pedagogy for Working Through Shame in Academic Spaces.” Essay. In Race, Equity, and The Learning Environment the Global Relevance of Critical and Inclusive Pedagogies in Higher Education, edited by Frank Tuitt, Chayla Haynes, and Saran Stewart. Sterling, Va: Stylus Publishing, 2016.

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