Teachin' Books
A podcast all about the ways people teach, learn, and work with literature -- aaaand all sorts of other cultural bits and bobs, like video games, theatrical performances, Dungeons and Dragons, and more! Host Jessica McDonald talks about teachin' books in undergraduate classrooms, and she interviews folks to learn more about what cool work is happening in other other teaching and learning contexts.
Teachin' Books
1.23 Failure in/and Teaching
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Today I'm talkin' FAILURE.
With contributions from friends, colleagues, listeners who shared their stories and thoughts about failure, as well as my own experiences and ideas, this episode gets into: the "meta" experience of failing to read enough about failure to do an episode on it; learning in theory versus learning through practice; sharing failures with students as "parting gifts," as icebreakers, as a lesson in self-reflexivity, as a practice of vulnerability, of transparency, or just to knock over the performative bullshit of "excellence" in teaching and learning.
I hope you enjoy! Get in touch with me if you have more thoughts about failure in/and teaching.
(PS Carl, widely adored podcast mascot, research assistant, and longtime Build-a-Bear friend of my adult life, is pictured here because he never fails. He's a nonstop WINNER.)
- Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Teaching Fails section / Neil Mari's contribution "When Wikipedia Fought Back"
- Tara's episode of Teachin' Books (on André Alexis's Fifteen Dogs), with discussion at the end of the prisoner justice work of Cory Cardinal
- Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure (which I just requested from the library!)
- Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments / Keyword: Failure (curated by Brian Croxall and Quinn Warnick) / Mark Sample's "Flogging Reflection" / Dorothea Salo's "Failure Assessment" / Allison Carr's "In Support of Failure"
- Cory Cardinal's obituary / Inmates 4 Humane Conditions / Beyond Prison Walls Canada / Funeral and Support Fund for Cory Cardinal
The podcast music is by Dyalla Swain and the graphics are by @muskrathands.
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