Teaching Curve 20 Mauro Caraccioli on Attending to Institutional Contexts in Pedagogical Strategizing

This episode's conversation is with Dr. Mauro Caraccioli, Associate Professor of Political Science and Core Faculty in the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) at Virginia Tech University in the United States. Mauro teaches courses on political theory, history of political thought, theories of political domination, empire and imperialism, religion and narrative, Latin America and the politics of historiography. 

Our conversation explores 

·      How institutional contexts can influence student attitudes and, by extension, how we empathize with them

·      Differences between the pedagogical approaches to undergraduate and graduate students

·      Ways to help doctoral students prepare for their role as teaching academics