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This podcast brings you insights from leading experts in disability and mad studies from around the world. You’ll hear about the research and work of disabled scholars, activists, artists and our allies. You’ll also get some insight into their lives - their favourite non-DS activities, hobbies, and adventures. Most importantly, however, you’ll get to hear how they think disability can save the world…
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Podagogies is a learning and teaching podcast that explores the pedagogy of post-secondary educators who bring scholarship to students in compelling, innovative, and surprising new ways. Produced by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Toronto Metropolitan University, visit us at torontomu.ca/teachingcentre
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Ready or not, Artificial Intelligence is part of our classrooms, and we can only begin to predict its impact on learning and teaching in higher education. In this episode, we chat pedagogy, academic integrity, and AI anxiety with Dr. Lai-Tze Fan, Dr. Jan Frijters, and Allyson Miller.Guest Speaker Bios:Lai-Tze Fan's general research and teaching int…
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In this episode, Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani discusses the role of Open Pedagogy in digital justice and digital education futures. From creating and assessing Open Educational Resources to navigating digital redlining, we critically cover a range of pedagogical practices meant to offer students more agency.Guest Speaker Bio: Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani is the Vice…
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In this episode, we speak to a teaching team behind "Connecting for Climate Change Action," a course that blends science with storytelling and student reflection to help students take action. Dr. Katrina Moser, Dr. Beth Hundey, Sara Mai Chitty and Serena Mendizabal relay student stories and tell us how they learned to do more than teach the science…
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In today's show, I am joined by Lauren Munro, a mad scholar and fat activist, a limited-term faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University, and a PhD Candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University. We talk about her work with the Empowerment Council at CAMH where, alongside Lucy Costa, they teach psychiatric medical resident students a course called "…
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In recognition of Wellbeing Week at TMU, two professors discuss their research on how educators can be purposeful about fostering student wellbeing in the classroom. Dr. Krystal Nunes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biology who is studying how students can develop the skill of resilience and learn to appreciate the impo…
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In this episode, Brock University Acting Vice-Provost of Indigenous Engagement Dr. Robin Bourgeois explains what it means to bring “heart-centered” pedagogy to the classroom and beyond. From the position of a classroom “auntie” who invites students to make mistakes, Dr. Bourgeois reveals the magic of her heartful teaching and its wide, growing reac…
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Content Warning - Mention of Suicide In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Merrick Pilling (@chillingwithdr.pilling), an Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor. We talk about his two new books - Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice and Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented…
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Dr. Terri Peters is an Assistant Professor of Architectural Science at X University. Her research focuses on building design, sustainability, health and wellbeing. In this episode, we imagine the future of classroom learning spaces, the benefits of biophilic design, and what it means to invite students back to in-person learning after two years of …
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In today's show, I am joined by Megan Linton, a Ph.D. student of the Department of Sociology and Political Economy at Carleton University, and Sarah Jama, co-founder and executive director of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario in Hamilton Ontario. We talk about their new campaign to abolish long-term care in Canada, and the ways that disabil…
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Dr. Eric Da Silva is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Chair of the Designated Decision Maker Council at Ryerson University (renaming in process), a group of faculty members who are trained to adjudicate suspicions of academic misconduct. In this episode, we discuss the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and remote teaching on the prevalence of a…
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In this episode, we speak with Dr. Yukari Seko and Asmaa Malik about what they call a “solution-focused” approach to graduate supervision. Together with seven other graduate supervisors they have been exploring new supervisory strategies that meet the needs and academic development of today's graduate students.Read the transcript: https://tinyurl.c…
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In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Adam Davies, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition at Guelph University, an Ontario Registered Early Childhood Educator (RECE) and an Ontario Certified Teacher, Primary-Junior. We talk about the important interventions in early childhood education that a mad studies pers…
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In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, an Associate Professor at Carleton University at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies & the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. We talk about decolonial disability studies, the work of doing research in global south count…
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In this episode, we explore the concept of ungrading: What is it? How do we get started? What might it mean for students in higher education? After attending the Digital Pedagogy Lab in 2019, Dr. Ebru Ustundag began exploring ungrading in her classes. Over the past year and half she has used ungrading as a teaching strategy to respond to the Covid-…
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In this episode we discuss the theme of distress in our pedagogy and how we handle and address distress with our students in an era of social crisis. Joining us is Dr. Tobin LeBlanc Haley, a Mad critical political economist and critical disability studies scholar who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at X University, and Dr. …
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In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Jihan Abbas, an instructor in the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University and a researcher at DAWN-RAFH Canada, the DisAbled Women's Network. We talk about her experiences studying DS, her concern about the lack of access to vaccines for disabled people, and how she thinks disability can save the world…
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In today's special episode, I bring you a conference-presentation-style podcast in collaboration with the research project, Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life. This episode acts as our conference submission to the 2021 Arts in Society conference in Perth, Australia. In the episode, we discuss what barriers to the art…
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In today's episode, I am for the first time joined by a group of folks. They are Dr. Kelly Fritsch, Dr. Anne McGuire, and Eduardo Trejos. We talk about their collective project, a children's book called We Move Together and of course, we discuss how they think disability can save the world. We Move Together, AK Press by Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire,…
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As a non-Indigenous educator, and someone who's committed to developing an anti-colonial curriculum, Dr. Shiri Pasternak received a teaching grant to explore possibilities for centering Indigenous analysis, experience, history and epistemology in her classroom, and to do so in ways that take responsibility and build relationships with Indigenous pe…
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In today's show, I am joined by Alan Martino, an instructor at the Woman's and Gender Studies program at the University of Carleton. We discuss his work about the intersection of disability and sexuality by engaging with people labeled with intellectual disabilities and how he thinks disability can save the world. Academic crush: Dorothy Smith Curr…
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In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Beth Haller, Professor of Mass Communication at Townsend University in the United States. We discuss her current book project about disabled media creators, television, and news, and how she thinks disability can save the world. Currently reading: Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner…
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Jesse Stommel teaches courses in pedagogy, film and new media, and is the Executive Director of Hybrid Pedagogy at the Journal of Critical Digital Pedagogy. Sean Michael Morris is a Senior Instructor of Learning Design and Technology in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado and Director, and Director of the Dig…
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In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Eliza Chandler, Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at Ryerson University and co-director of the Bodies in Translation. We discuss everything cripping the arts, her love of disability scholarship, and how she thinks disability can save the world. Academic crush - Aimi Hamraie Currently reading - In the Wake…
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Dr. Louis-Etienne Dubois is an Assistant Professor of Creative Industries, and Director of the Future of Entertainment Lab at Ryerson University. In transitioning his courses to an emergency remote environment, Louis decided to take a Slow Teaching approach that he describes as being "low tech and high human," and that focuses on time well spent.Yo…
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In today's episode, I speak with Dr. Jeff Preston about his research on digital culture and disability, internet memes, and his love/hate relationship with the 6ix god, Drake. We also discuss how disability can save the world... Academic Crush - Louis Althusser Currently reading - Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Fél…
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Dr. Damien Lee is an Assistant Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Biskaabiiyang and Indigenous Political Resurgence in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. In this episode we discuss Dr. Lee's unique approach to asynchronous discussions in remote teaching. A transcript of this episode is available here: https://bit.ly/3mycf…
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In today's episode, I speak with Tracy Tidgwell about their activism and work in the fat liberation movement. We discuss the pandemic, the connections between fatness and disability...and Parker Posey is discussed, of course! We also discuss how disability can save the world... Nobodyisdisposable.org Crush: Sondra Solovay; Da'Shaun Harrison; Caleb …
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Podcasts can be an effective tool for delivering course content and assessing student learning as post-secondary educators prepare to transition to fully remote teaching in the fall. Our guests share their own personal strategies for integrating podcasts in a range of disciplines from Communications to Nursing, and we discuss the impact of podcasts…
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In today's episode, I speak with jes sachse about their works and writings as a disabled artist. We discuss their past project Freedom Tube, their poetry and writing, and their love of found street objects. We also discuss how disability can save the world… Crush: Phoebe Wang (https://www.constellationsaudio.com/sounds/resonantbodies/wang); Deborah…
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In this week's episode, I speak with Dr. Chelsea Jones about the massive shift to online teaching in higher education since the start of the pandemic. Chelsea discusses the implications of this shift on the sector, instructors, and students, and describes what it really means to make online teaching accessible. We also discuss her life outside of a…
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In today's episode, I speak with Andrew Gurza - Disability Awareness Consultant and fellow podcaster of the hit show, Disability After Dark. We discuss his activism through the pod, his focus on sexuality and disability, and his life outside of podcasting. He also answers the question: how can disability save the world? Andrew Gurza - http://www.an…
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In today's show, I speak with Dr. Jenna Reid about her research involving textiles, her joy for everything earl grey tea and punk rock, and how she thinks - maybe - disability can save the world... Academic Crush - None. Get your act together academia. Book Recommendation - Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler…
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In today's episode, I speak with Dr. Sona Kazemi about her forthcoming book, her new model of disability, and everything to do with resistance against the current Iranian state. I speak with her about her love of poetry and art, and of course, ask her how disability can save the world... Dr. Sona Kazemi - https://sonakazemi.wordpress.com/ Academic …
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In today's show, I speak with Dr. Tobin LeBlanc Haley about her work at the intersections of homelessness, urban/rural fringe, disability and race. We discuss her life outside of work - her love of running and 80s music - and she tells us how disability can save the world... Shout out to Re*Vision Centre for Arts and Social Justice at the Universit…
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In today's episode, I speak with Danielle Landry, Ph.D. Candidate about her research on consumer-run businesses (run by people with mental health and addictions histories), her love of running, and how she thinks disability can save the world... Academic Crush - Nirmala Erevelles - https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230100183b Book Recommendation…
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In today's episode, I speak with Ph.D. Candidate Anna Chowaniec on her research with individuals with rare disorders. We discuss her passion for 1930s Polish ethnography, her ties to Polish celebrities and of course, I'll ask her, how she thinks disability can save the world... Anna Chowaniec - https://www.etnologia.uw.edu.pl/en/about-us/people/phd…
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In today's first episode, I speak with Dr. Mary Jean Hande about her research and life outside of academia. She discusses care, interdependence, and how we can learn from the work of disabled and marginalized people in this unprecedented time. Dr. Mary Jean Hande - https://maryjeanhande.ca/ Academic Crush - https://sonakazemi.wordpress.com/ Book Re…
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In this episode, we discuss the process of writing a teaching philosophy with Dr. Annette Bailey who is Associate Director of the Collaborative Degree Program in Nursing at Ryerson University. A recipient of numerous teaching awards and honours, Dr. Bailey shares her own teaching philosophy, and discusses how she builds intellectual partnerships wi…
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What does a relevant 21st century graduate education look like? As the purpose, meaning and scope of graduate education evolves to meet the challenges of an ever-changing social and technological landscape, we speak with two leaders in the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Ryerson University: Dr. Jennifer Mactavish, Vice Provost and Dean, and Dr…
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Dr. David Cramb is Dean of the Faculty of Science at Ryerson University, and a passionate advocate for reimagining science education at the post-secondary level. In this episode, we discuss how to shift the culture of science pedagogy in a direction that encourages students to embrace failure, to own the process of learning, and to learn science by…
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This year’s OCUFA teaching award winner Frankie Stewart is known for her advocacy, mentorship, and her leading role in teaching students how to find their own voice and get buy-in for their ideas. She teaches hundreds mechanical engineering students each year—many in a movie theatre in downtown Toronto. Her tricks for reaching individual students i…
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In this episode, Dr. Anita Jack-Davies discusses culture clashes in the classroom and what it means to open difficult conversations about race, relationships, and (safely) bringing your identity into the classroom. From “other mothering” to filling in policy gaps, Dr. Jack-Davies discusses ways to support underrepresented students in our classrooms…
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After two years in the making, Paul Chafe and Aaron Tucker launched a team-built open access textbook this fall called "Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research." The interactive book serves an introductory writing course that seats over 1,000 students each year - and you can use it, too. In this episode, …
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What happens when you ask students to build a structure that will stop a hamster from falling into a bucket of boiling water? In the fourth episode of Podagogies, Vincent Hui leads us through a "super" experiential learning moment in his classroom. The award-winning instructor explains why he approaches teaching in a relational way, even if you're …
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Can we really decolonize classrooms? In this episode, Dr. Sheila Cote-Meek cautions against jumping into "decolonization" too quickly. She describes her research on Indigenous learners and teachers' classroom experiences and strategizes around teaching difficult knowledge. Cote-Meek is the author of Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma, and Resista…
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Dr. Eliza Chandler is an Assistant Professor in the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University. She is also the founding artistic director of Tangled Art Gallery, Canada's first art gallery dedicated to showcasing disability art and advancing accessible curatorial practices.A transcript of this episode is available here: https://bit.ly/3l1Z…
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Welcome to the first episode of Podagogies. In this episode, we discuss the format and aims of the podcast, and unpack how educators might use land acknowledgements in their teaching. Please send us your feedback, questions and comments at podagogies@ryerson.caA transcript of this episode is available here: https://bit.ly/38806Ap…
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