Three individuals at York University received the President's University-Wide Teaching Awards for demonstrating exceptional and innovative teaching methods. One of the recipients was Krista Hunt, an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science and a learning specialist. Hunt was recognized for providing outstanding experiential learning opportunities and creating an inclusive and empowering learning environment in courses about violence against women and gender and development. She developed an online education tool called Teach.Learn.Change as a classroom resource and takes an approach to teaching that promotes diversity, engages different learning styles, and challenges assumptions.

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Three honoured with teaching awards at
Spring Convocation
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Three honoured with teaching awards at Spring Convocation
Three individuals at York University who have demonstrated exceptional and innovative teaching methods will be
honoured with the annual President’s University-Wide Teaching Awards (PUWTA) during Spring Convocation
ceremonies.
Award recipients Kabita Chakraborty, Krista Hunt and Matthew Strang were selected by the Senate Committee on
Awards for their significant contribution to enhancing the quality of learning for York students...
Krista Hunt, in the category of contract and adjunct faculty
Krista Hunt
Krista Hunt is an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science and a learning specialist and advisor at York’s
Centre for Human Rights. She is being recognized for providing students with outstanding experiential learning
opportunities and for creating an inclusive, encouraging and empowering learning environment.
Hunt has taught the courses “Violence Against Women”, “Women, Community and Policy Change”, and “Women,
Violence and Resistance” during her time at York University. She has also applied through CUPE and the Learning
Commons to develop a course at York entitled “Violence on Campus: Strategies for Change” and was successful in
receiving funding to develop this course.
She is noted for taking a “strong leadership role developing and initiating new opportunities for students at York
University and in the community-at-large,” said York alumna Fatima Noor Khan, who was enrolled in the “Gender and
Development” course taught by Hunt in 2011 and wrote a letter supporting the nomination.
Khan notes that Hunt’s unique and experimental classroom approach can be drawn from her Teach.Learn.Change
project – an online education tool Hunt developed as a resource for classroom activities, assignment and ‘action’
projects.

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Three honoured with teaching awards at
Spring Convocation
Yfile, York University
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“Her teaching practice was grounded in the lived experience of the learner,” said Benjamin Huff, a former student, in his
letter supporting her nomination.
Hunt describes her teaching style as fostering critical analysis, multi-directional dialogue and taking action, as opposed
to the banking system of education.
“I am committed to teaching in a way that promotes a diversity of voices and opinions, provides activities that engage a
wide range of learning styles, and creates opportunities to challenge assumptions and stereotypes about ourselves and
others,” she said.
Hunt will receive her award on Wednesday, June 22 at 3:30pm.