Season 1, Episode 3: Teaching Personally Challenging Material

Professor Ada Jaarsma

Ada Jaarsma is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University. A recipient of the MRU Distinguished Faculty Award, Dr. Jaarsma is increasingly interested in the connections between how we teach and what we teach. With the support of a Teaching & Learning Inquiry Grant from the Academic Development Centre at MRU, she developed a research project with two MRU students that explores these connections in the context of Philosophy.

Course on Philosophy and Race Epigenetics
available on Dr. Ada Jaarsma's Academia Site
https://www.academia.edu/24847090/Continental_Philosophy_and_Race_Epigenetics_Eugenics_Evidence_syllabus_and_handouts_

Relevant Publication
Jaarsma, A.S., Kinaschuk, K., & Xing, L., 2015
"Kierkegaard, Despair, and the Possibility of Education: Teaching Existentialism Existentially."
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11217-015-9488-x
(Research supported by an ADC Teaching & Learning Inquiry Grant)

Professor Ada Jaarsma's Personal Website
www.adajaarsma.com

Prof Ada Jaarsma - Genealogy exercise