Preview Ep 102: How the Current Climate of Divisive Opinions Shape the way Educators Teach Today

This is a preview of episode # 102 of the Making after school cool podcast. During this preview you will hear a discussion I had Dr. Deborah Appleman, professor of educational studies at Carleton College, regarding the difficulty of teaching Literature in today’s current state of divisiveness and politics.  Dr. Appleman is the author of the recently published book Literature and the New Cultural Wars, where she offers educators solutions to how to address the complications which might arise teaching literature, as well as other field of studying dealing with historical time periods.