Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Pedagogy Series with Dr. Annette Henry



In Episode 3 of the Peter Wall Insitute for Advanced Studies Pedagogy Video Series On Feeling and Knowing Dr. Tara Mayer (GRSJ) speaks with Dr. Annette Henry (GRSJ & Faculty of Education). The series of candid and wide-ranging conversations tackles the realities of teaching fraught material in complex times.

Dr. Annette Henry holds the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. She is a Professor and former department head in the Department of Language and Literacy Education and is cross-appointed to the Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice. Her scholarship examines race, class, language, gender and culture in socio-cultural contexts of teaching and learning within the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean.

“Classrooms are to be safe spaces, we’re told. Yet educators working within complex realms, where the tensions and discomforts of human experience offer no safe havens, know that deep learning often elicits strong feelings.”
On Feeling and Knowing


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