Hearing and Learning
This week's post, the fourth in a series of posts about embodiment, the senses, and accessible pedagogy, is going to discuss hearing and learning. Before we talk about some of the specifics when it comes to hearing as a sense and the pedagogy we may encounter in our curricular design it is important to frame that hearing is not the same as listening. I know that in eduspace sometimes these words or terms or concepts could be used synonymously, but it is important to differentiate them. Just like the conversation we had last week about engagement, it is possible for listening to happen even if the learners have different hearing. The listening is a more intentional type of engagement and that can happen in many ways in classroom spaces both on-campus and online. In a space that is designed to be a lecture space, there are assumptions that listening is always happening; that the learners will hear what the members of the teaching team are saying, and that somehow that translates to l...