Episode 2 of Pedagogies for the Future, which explores teaching sustainability in higher education and beyond.

Episode 1.2: Exploring Our Relationships With Knowledge | Climate Kind Pedagogy with Dr. Kshamta Hunter

Co-hosts Hannah Ascough and Tai Munro chat with Kshamta Hunter about how climate kind pedagogy centres humanity and shapes our relationships with knowledge.

Key Ideas from the Episode We Keep Thinking About

• Values are going to show up in the classroom; making them explicit allows for dialogue
• Kindness is not creating leniency; it is creating space for innovation, for ideas to flourish, and relationships to thrive
• Dialogue leads to deeper learning and can contribute to how we enact the future

Companion show notes can be found for this episode at https://www.sheac.ca/podcast. There you will find things to try in the classroom, questions to further the conversation, as well as references from the episode.

Episode 1 of Pedagogies for the Future, which explores teaching sustainability in higher education and beyond.

In this episode, we reflect back on our first conversation, unpack a key concept a little further, and link to the different resources mentioned in the episode.

Co-hosts Hannah Ascough and Tai Munro reflect on what it means to build a relationship with yourself and how that relationship contributes to and grows from the other relationships in our lives.

Key Ideas from the Episode We Keep Thinking About

• Relationships are essential for sustainability work
• We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to address the heaviness of the world
• We have to be careful not to fall into the productivity trap
• We don’t need to have the answers
• Institutions and society can make self-care challenging

Companion show notes can be found for this episode at https://www.sheac.ca/podcast. There you will find things to try in the classroom, questions to further the conversation, as well as references from the episode.