Teaching Curve 14 Kate Schick and Claire Timperley on Subversive Pedagogies and Radical Possibility

The Teaching Curve is a podcast exploring the teaching and learning of global issues. This episode with Dr. Kate Schick and Dr. Claire Timperley. Dr. Schick is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Dr. Timperley is Lecturer in Political Science at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. They are co-editors of Subversive Pedagogies: Radical Possibility in the Academy (Routledge 2021). The episode explores how pedagogical choices can subvert the constraints of the neoliberal, colonial university for the benefit of students, instructors, and society at large.  

Our conversation covers:
• Emotional and life-affirming rewards that can be found in investing in the practices of teaching

• Approaches to the profession that create synergies between academic responsibilities that are normally considered separate and distinct obligations 

• How pedagogical choices can subvert the constraints of the neoliberal, colonial university for the benefit of students, instructors and society at large.