Nugget – Disagreement
I chose “Promoting Disagreement: How to Debate and Not Die” by Matthew Ryan, Fleming College for my nugget.
“A moral aversion towards disagreement, I imagine, may arise in part from the current notion of diversity. By creating an inclusive and respectful classroom, one may assume that inclusion infers agreement and respect denotes compliance. Diversity is good as a motive for completely and unconditionally accepting other persons, but not as a motive for agreeing with their perspective. In other words, kindness is universal but not correctness.”
I chose this paragraph because I think this idea of understanding disagreement is important in the classroom. Because several different learners are put into the same classroom with other who may think differently than them, disagreement is inevitable and as teachers we need to be comfortable with sitting in and navigating through it. Students may disagree with the other students, but they may also disagree with us, the teachers. This is ok! I feel like many times the answer is open ended, there is no one right answer (within the arts especially), so we should be open to listening and reflecting on what is said in the classroom.
It is ok to disagree, and it doesn’t necessarily mean anyone is right or wrong. Not everything that applies to one person will have equal relevance to someone else. In Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee’s martial arts system, he says, “take what applies to you and disregard what doesn’t”. This is a very open minded approach to teaching and learning, which I think can be useful when trying to understand how to deal with disagreements in the classroom.
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