![]() ![]() While most of my teaching load is large introductory classes which students take to fulfill a core curriculum requirement, this elective course had only about a dozen students. In my first year as a tenured associate professor, I experienced the worst class of my life in what I had expected to be a dream course, in both content and format: an upper-level seminar surveying Christian views, historical and contemporary, on the human person, sin, and salvation. Transgender, sexuality, feminist pedagogy, Christianity, social media, classroom discipline This is one of three essays published together in a special topic section of this journal on critical incidents in the classroom. This awful class and the subsequent related events, including the administrative response to the social media outrage, have led me to a deeper understanding of what it means to embrace responsibility while at the same time recognizing and accepting that I am not in control. The student responded to my request for a disciplinary hearing by launching a social media campaign to discredit me and my reasons for requesting this hearing. After this student refused to apologize in aggressively disrespectful language to me in a private meeting, I petitioned for university sanction. When one angry student refused to follow my discussion structure in a class on diverse Christian views of gender and sexuality, I was unable to keep other students in the room safe from his harmful tirade. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License NEW-ARTICLE-CODE SPECIAL TOPIC Who Speaks When?ΔΆ020 1:2 41-48 The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching ![]()
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