Great Questions Foundation

Tgqf has launched the american political and social thought curriculum redesign institute. This program will impact up to 45 community college faculty members in 2024-2025 and over 5,000 community college students. The apst aims to help instructors in history, political science, and related social sciences explore discussion-based approaches to studying transformative works in american political and social thought. Community college faculty participants support each other as they explore readings and discussion prompts based on the work of authors such as plato, locke, wollstonecraft, phillis wheatley, publius, tocqueville, maria stewart, abraham lincoln, frederick douglass, sojourner truth, w.e.b. Du bois, dr. King, and other works reflecting contemporary engagement with this tradition that participants selected for the institute will bring to the discussion.in each institute, up to fifteen community college faculty members are invited to discuss how to courageously, truthfully, and productively address our nation's struggle to live up to the principles of the declaration of independence and the promise of liberty and equality for all, while ensuring that each individual in diverse community college classrooms can participate fully in these discussions. Institutes are guided by two leaders, each a community college faculty colleague with many years of experience in discussion-based pedagogy, who help participants create classrooms where students feel free to openly express themselves on political and social issues about which there is disagreement, and ensure that courses help students acquire the tools they need to develop their own political understanding and agency. Find out more here: https://www.tgqf.org/apst/