Is about human sexuality, or more specifically, students' sexuality. What makes this the perfect class, in Nathan's view (and that of her student informants)? It mixes personal experience and off-limits topics with academic content in a balance that favors experience over academics.
"Approved" topics of conversation among students also tend to favor personal experience over more academic topics.
"Good questions" are those that ask technical or clarifying questions about expectations (for tests, quizzes, papers, etc.). They are NOT supposed to be about the content. Students who ask questions about the content are seen as different (suck ups, outsiders, geeks, etc.). (I have to say that this is not my experience, in general, but I do get exasperated when students ask so-called good questions after I have just finished talking about something that I consider really interesting and thought-provoking.)
How does she know? How does she find out?
What are the implications for teaching and learning? Students: what do you say to this?
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