Open call for Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching
We write to solicit names of outstanding teachers who might be interested in contributing to a volume of reflective essays on the teaching of philosophy to be published by Hackett Publishing Company in 2019. We are primarily seeking dedicated philosophy teachers who have received an institution-wide teaching award (or some equivalent recognition) for their work in the classroom.
Essays will be approximately 4,000 to 7,000 words and reflect upon some aspect of the philosopher's experience as a teacher. Essays might address:
- the teaching of a particular class (e.g. intro, ancient, modern, logic or critical reasoning);
- the teaching of a particular student population (e.g. first-years, advanced majors, pre-college students, economically disenfranchised students, religious students, graduate students, or prisoners);
- the impact philosophy teaching can have in the world;
- a specific experience that has come to have broader significance for the author; or
- some other topic that will educate and inspire teachers of philosophy.
This will not be an anthology of SOTL (scholarship of teaching and learning) papers or "how-to" papers, but an anthology of literary, narrative essays on the lives of distinguished philosophy teachers and their love for teaching.
Please recommend your best philosophy teachers for this project by e-mailing their names, and, if possible cvs, to alexandrabradner@gmail.com with the subject line "Hackett teaching book" by Wednesday, February 8, 2017. If you've received an institution-wide teaching award (or some equivalent recognition) and have an idea for an essay, please send your cv, along with a paragraph or two about your idea, to that same e-mail address by Wednesday, February 8, 2017.
Decisions will be announced sometime in May 2017. We plan to assemble our final list of contributors through our review of the submissions generated by this call and through some number of invitations. We are aiming for a list that is diverse in all respects: institutional affiliation, career status, philosophical orientation, gender, ethnicity, etc.
Best,
Steven M. Cahn, Former Chair, APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy
Alexandra Bradner, Chair, APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy
Andrew Mills, President, American Association of Philosophy Teachers
