Abstract
This paper describes a novel approach to teaching introductory-level students how to engage with philosophical texts, developed in the context of a philosophy of art course. We aimed to enhance students' motivation to read philosophy well by cultivating habits of active reading. To this end we created a structured set of three assignments: (1) instructor created digitally annotated reading assignments, (2) a student digital annotation assignment, and (3) required student participation in a collective GoogleDoc "repository of artworks, examples, ideas, and questions." Student feedback suggests that this set of teaching tools enhanced their sense of agency in approaching philosophical texts.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 37-55 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Teaching Philosophy |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Mar 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |