Topic presentation for Introduction to Pedagogy Module of Desig Forward

1. Pedagog
y
the art, science, or
profession of teaching
A dictionary definition

2. “As the market-driven logic of neoliberal
capitalism continues to devalue all aspects
of the public interest, one consequence is
that the educational concern with
excellence has been removed from matters
of equity while higher education, once
conceptualized as a public good, has been
reduced to a private good….Consequently,
there is little interest in understanding the
pedagogical foundation of higher
education as a deeply civic, political, and
moral practice – that is, pedagogy as a
practice for freedom.”
Henry Giroux

3. “Pedagogy is not ideologically neutral…the word
‘pedagogy’ has been misread…the project of education has
been misdirected…educators and students alike have found
themselves more and more flummoxed by a system that
values assessment over engagement, learning
management over discovery, content over community,
outcomes over epiphanies. Education has misrepresented
itself as objective, quantifiable, apolitical.”
Sean Michael Morris & Jessie Stommel

4. Resilient pedagogy means
acknowledging that not all students will
be able to meet us exactly where our
institutions expect them to, and teachers
won’t always be able to meet students
exactly there either.
Jesse Stommel

5. But, to me, kindness as pedagogical
practice is not about sacrificing myself, or
about taking on more emotional labor. It
has simplified my teaching, not
complicated it, and it’s not about niceness.
Direct, honest conversations, for instance,
are often tough, not nice. But the kindness
offered by honesty challenges both
myself and my students to grow.
Catherine Denial

6. If we start to believe that the instructor
isn’t designing the learning environment,
that her presence isn’t having a real effect
on the way students interact with each
other and with the course material, then
we make the power dynamics of a course
invisible, and that is precisely what most
student-centered pedagogy seeks to
avoid.
Mary Stewart

7. …one of the weightiest problems with
which the philosophy of education has to
cope is the method of keeping a proper
balance between the informal and the
formal, the incidental and the intentional,
modes of education.
John Dewey