Clarissa Sorensen Unruh shares about intersectionality, power, and pedagogy on episode 522 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The unfortunate thing about intersectionality is that once you start seeing the power lenses, you can never go back to not seeing the power lenses.

It is hard for students to accurately think about what their learning process looked like.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh

Not only is the system rigged for a certain dominant group, but it is purposefully sabotaging some groups.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh

The unfortunate thing about intersectionality is that once you start seeing the power lenses, you can never go back to not seeing the power lenses.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh

Our goal is not to get burnt out.
-Clarissa Sorensen Unruh

Resources

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory, by Patricia Hill Collins
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Liberatory and emancipatory pedagogies – critical pedagogy, culturally responsive pedagogies, open pedagogy, and ungrading
Nel Noddings Ethics of Care
Wool, Hugh Howey*
Nikita Gill
Dune
Black Liturgies
Learning in a Time of Abundance, by Dave Cormier

Barry C. Smith on Neuroscience

Philosophy Bites

The Age of Truth by Neuroscience

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