Pedagogies of Care: The Human Work of Course Design

This free webinar is offered by Course Hero, hosted by Jesse Stommel, PhD.
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RSVP here. Note: Seating is limited to 150

This 90-minute webinar will explore the intersections of inclusive design, critical pedagogy, and the practice of teaching today’s students.

Through dialogue—as well as discussion of specific practices and how they can be adapted for different contexts—the work we do will be participant-driven, influenced by the specific needs and concerns of the educators who attend.

Many of the students we work with don’t know where they will find their next meal. The most marginalized students at our institutions are finding themselves and their work increasingly policed—by faculty members, by administrative policies, by ed-tech “solutions,” and by the actual police.

Meanwhile, the majority of faculty members in higher education are precariously employed. In the introduction to Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection, Sean Michael Morris, Chris Friend, and I write, “Education must be a practice done with hearts as much as heads, with hands as much as books. Care has to be at the center of this work.”

We have to design for the least privileged, most marginalized students, the ones more likely to have felt isolated even before the pandemic: disabled students, chronically-ill students, BIPOC students, queer students, and those facing basic needs insecurity. We need to design assessments, write syllabi, develop policies, and imagine new ways forward for these students. We have to start by finding out who our students are, what they need to be successful, and how our institutional mission does (and sometimes doesn’t) align with our practices.

Advance reading (recommended): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kLF93sKV0gSOmV0J3J0NySr40EdF8HnZ0Jd2dMEi64s/edit

This event is part of the Faculty Enrichment Events calendar.