TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

For Kenneth Paul Tan, teaching is a series of intellectual, moral, and aesthetic puzzles, whose purposes must extend beyond the technical mastery of academic subjects to the development of an expanded mode of reasoning, feeling, and judgement about their appropriate, beneficial, just, and creative application in the world. As an educator, his primary goal has been to cultivate and enable the next generation of active and leaderly citizens to be critical and interdisciplinary thinkers, articulate and versatile communicators, and creative, empathetic, and responsible problem-solvers. His approach to education is transformative and socially oriented. His signature teaching style combines Socratic dialogue with mind-mapping techniques, multimedia case studies, and out-of-classroom experiences.