Michael Hand and Quentin Wheeler-Bell sat down to talk with Cara about teaching amidst strong divides. My guests discussed and debated how to address partisan leanings in the classroom, how to ethically support a range of student perspectives, what makes a topic controversial, and the criterion for judging the validity of a claim.

For Michael's article: https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.70065. 

The original article: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-5446.2008.00285.x. 

For more work by Michael:

Hand, M. (2026) ‘Is there a principled exception to the epistemic criterion of controversiality?’, in Drerup, J. (ed) Teaching Controversy: The Politics and Ethics of Classroom Conflict, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hand, M. (2018) A Theory of Moral Education, London: Routledge.

For Quentin's article:  https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.70074.