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Nothing Never Happens is a journey into cutting-edge pedagogical theory and praxis, where co-hosts Tina Pippin and Lucia Hulsether connect with leading voices in radical teaching and learning. We engage a range of approaches — including but not limited to democratic, feminist, queer, decolonial, and abolitionist models.

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Ecopedagogies: A Conversation with Lauren Kearns & Tim Van Meter

Ecopedagogies, Act 1 Tim Van Meter In this first of hopefully many podcasts on the topic of ecopedagogies, I am joined by Prof. Laurel Kearns of Sociology and Religion and Environmental Studies at Drew Theological School and the Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University and Prof. Tim Van Meter, Alford Chair of Christian Education … Continue reading "Ecopedagogies: A Conversation with Lauren Kearns & Tim Van Meter" The post Ecopedagogies: A Conversation with Lauren Kearns & Tim Van...

Jun 21, 2018•42 min

Popular Education for Social Change: The New Poor People’s Campaign, Part 2

In Part 2 Colleen and Willie bring us to the challenges of our current time with specific strategies for educating about systemic poverty. They show us an intersectional approach and offer tools for meeting people where they are. An engaged scholarship is at the root of their activist work. They end on a note of … Continue reading "Popular Education for Social Change: The New Poor People’s Campaign, Part 2" The post Popular Education for Social Change: The New Poor People’s Campaign, Part 2 appe...

May 21, 2018•41 min

Popular Education for Social Change: The New Poor People’s Campaign

At the fiftieth anniversary of the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, the Poor People’s Movement, and the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I invited two activist-scholars involved in the New Poor People’s Movement to talk about popular education and movement building for social change. In Part 1, Willie and Colleen talk about … Continue reading "Popular Education for Social Change: The New Poor People’s Campaign" The post Popular Education for Social Change: The New Poor P...

May 21, 2018•32 min

Intersectional Pedagogies Part 2

In Part 2 of the podcast Professors Case and Rios talk about student and institutional resistance and challenges, along with concrete curricular and teach suggestions for a culturally relevant pedagogy. The post Intersectional Pedagogies Part 2 appeared first on Nothing Never Happens .

Apr 02, 2018•35 min

Intersectional Pedagogies

This podcast focuses on intersectional pedagogies, and what the consideration of multiple socially-constructed identities and social locations bring to the learning journey. The conversation is with two leaders in the field, Profs. Kim Case and Desdamona Rios of the University of Houston at Clear Lake. Issues of privilege, power, and social justice are all made … Continue reading "Intersectional Pedagogies" The post Intersectional Pedagogies appeared first on Nothing Never Happens ....

Apr 02, 2018•33 min

Popular Education for Social Change: An Economic Justice Teach-In at Agnes Scott College

This audio podcast is a concrete example of popular education for movement building and social change. As defined by the Highlander Research and Education Center: “Popular Education is a participatory process that combines people’s experiences to develop collective analysis and strategies for action for positive social change.” This campaign has been “a long haul”, … Continue reading "Popular Education for Social Change: An Economic Justice Teach-In at Agnes Scott College" The post Popular Educa...

Mar 22, 2018•51 min

Catching the Spirit of Septima: Highlander Center update podcast (2-18-18) with Allyn Maxfield-Steele on the New Septima Clark Learning Center

Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steele was recently in Atlanta and I met with him to learn about the plans for the new Septima Clark Learning Center that will be built at the Highlander Research Center in New Market, TN, where he works as co-director with Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson. Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was an educator and civil … Continue reading "Catching the Spirit of Septima: Highlander Center update podcast (2-18-18) with Allyn Maxfield-Steele on the New Septima Clark Learning Center" Th...

Feb 21, 2018•22 min

Womanist Pedagogies Part 2

In this second part of the podcast Profs. Westfield and Lockhart-Gilroy go deeper in their discussion of embodied teaching and learning, utilizing womanist epistemologies. Critical race theory provides a framework for understanding the dynamics of race in the classroom. They describe their classrooms as multisensory—honoring the whole selves in the space to make places for … Continue reading "Womanist Pedagogies Part 2" The post Womanist Pedagogies Part 2 appeared first on Nothing Never Happens ...

Nov 30, 2017•28 min

Womanist Pedagogies Part 1

Womanist pedagogies is a way of teaching that connects stories and bodies and lived experience in the classroom. In part one of this podcast, I talk with Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield and Dr. Annie Lockhart-Gilroy of Drew University Theology School about the origins of womanist pedagogies—the forebearers and the definition—and the practices in the classroom. … Continue reading "Womanist Pedagogies Part 1" The post Womanist Pedagogies Part 1 appeared first on Nothing Never Happens ....

Nov 30, 2017•32 min

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