Tactile and Pedagogy
I am writing this week's blog, the last blog in a series on embodiment, sensory, and accessible pedagogy, having spent the last week thinking about the impact of water. My city has been flooded not once, but twice in the last week, and that included me last Sunday with rain water coming in until I had about 6 inches of water in the basement. Luckily the basement only had some sporting equipment which I salvaged because I caught it in time and the washer and dryer (I rent), but my basement neighbour was not as lucky. I have been thinking a lot about how physical occurrences have real memory and tactile impact. We talk about this a lot within trauma-informed pedagogy and how we have no real way of knowing in our teaching and learning spaces what will be activating for folk. But I can safely say that for this region now, an activator is now simply the presence of grey clouds, or more rain. And that is because no one wants to do more work to clean up more basements of sewage, or lose ...