What Organizing Taught Me About Pedagogy
This week I have been thinking about the organizing spaces that I have been lucky to be a part of in my life. From the labour union spaces in graduate studies and work in the colleges, to the advocacy spaces that I was a part of when I taught in the Assaulted Women's and Children's Counsellor Advocate program (I am still so incredibly sad about the closing of this great program) to the community organizing spaces I find myself in locally now. I have been thinking about how much I learned from being in those spaces, and how much being in those spaces informed my pedagogy and the work that I do. But also how much I have been able to bring back to those spaces from a teaching and learning lens. So this week's blog is going to be a reflection on the reciprocal nature of those spaces and how they can be mutually impactful, in the hopes that those who are doing social justice organizing currently can see more ways to bring that work into pedagogy, but also how teaching and lear...