Enhancing Intellectual Humility
To enhance intellectual humility among students, faculty can: |
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To enhance intellectual humility among students, faculty can: |
increase assessments and periodic quizzes, grading, and feedback; create devil advocacy groups; have anonymous students in class provide feedback; request student evaluations of one another’s opinions; encourage role play in class; create cognitive dissonance by challenging students’ opinions with troubling counter examples; have students perform community outreach; implement students’ self-assessment; conduct personality inventories; increase perspective taking and self-awareness; minimize unrealistic expectations that might accompany a sense of entitlement; invite other faculty who model humility; model the humble reception of feedback from students; suggest that the classroom is an alliance between the instructor and the students; and use case studies |
Source: Adapted from Bergman et al. (2010).
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