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To Share or Not to Share: Cancer and What Teachers Should Tell Students About It
Talking About Teaching (2011)
  • Robert A. Eckhart, Ohio State University - Main Campus
Abstract
How much personal information to disclose to students is a fundamental question teachers have been asking themselves for decades. How much should teachers tell their students – a lot or a little? How should they tell them –in class, or face-to-face? Should the teacher only tell their students in a limited manner and then not answer questions, or should they be prepared to answer any and all questions the students might have? These are difficult questions, but if the teacher approaches the disclosure in the right way – avoiding irrelevant, overly negative, or offensive disclosures – it can be a positive for both the teacher and the students.
Keywords
  • self-disclosure teachers students
Publication Date
2011
Citation Information
Robert A. Eckhart. "To Share or Not to Share: Cancer and What Teachers Should Tell Students About It" Talking About Teaching Vol. V (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/bobeckhart/1/