Incorporating care into our pedagogy may seem like a common sense idea, but, in reality, the concept of care is complex and often fraught. How do you define care (love? compassion? kindness?) and what does it actually mean to care for students? (or our colleagues? or ourselves?) What do you do when caring approaches seem […]
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What is Pedagogy?
No matter where you are in your career, you have no doubt thought about your teaching: the structure of your courses, the kinds of assignments and assessments you create, the method of grading you use, whether or not you incorporate group work or projects, the digital tools you choose. It’s impossible to teach without doing […]
Approaches to Pedagogy: Critical, Caring, Clustered
Pedagogy is itself a contested category, so it is no surprise that most instructors and most institutions do not aspire to have a single, fixed pedagogical approach. Design Forward orients itself around three pedagogical questions with the hope that it will bring cohesion to the program without forcing faculty into prescriptive approaches: What happens if […]
