The Teaching Curve is a podcast exploring the teaching and learning of global issues. This episode with Dr. Shampa Biswas, Paul Garret Professor of Political Science and chair of the Department of Politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington in the US, explores the balance of professional authority and student agency in a global politics classroom and advising, whether to share one’s own political dispositions with students, and tactics for activating students’ personal relationship to the global.

The episode explores
· The balance of professional authority and student agency in a global politics classroom and advising

· Whether to share one’s own political dispositions with students

· And tactics for activating students’ personal relationship to the global