Intersectionality, Power, and Pedagogy

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

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

• 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