Teaching Truth and Teaching Lies

• In Event: Teaching Critical Criminology: Helping Students Critique and Challenge Data

Abstract

Problematizing “truth,” whatever we call it (data, values, policy, opinion, etc.), is the justice teacher’s primary task. In this Roundtable I share methods and techniques I employ to teach undergraduate and graduate justice students skepticism: in-depth training on critical learning skills, multiple students on same ethnographic site, use of readings that carry opposing assessments and conclusions, etc.

Author

• Michael J. Coyle, California State University, Chico