Teacher Student Conflicts: When Ideologies Clash

A Student’s Perspective on How to Win (in the end)

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Your Lecturer is teaching your subject with a strong bias towards one side. You disagree but it soon becomes apparent how any such challenges will lead to you failing class. You feel passionate about your views and have a strong sense of integrity and moral obligation not to give in. So what do you do?

Firstly know this is more common than you think. There is little information or advice about this topic and even fewer published. You are not alone and many of your fellow colleagues will feel the same way.

Ultimately you have three choices:

1. Hold Strong to Your “Expressed” Opinion

By “Expressed” I mean that which you share with your teacher and everyone else involved. You can always have an opinion but choosing whether to make it known is altogether different.

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So you choose to disagree with your professor. How might this play out?

Pros

• You test the strength of your Professor’s Argument and Opinion