Alexandra (Ana) Kogl shares about her chaper in Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education on episode 581 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episodeI didn’t expect to find joy in the classroom when I started teaching political science 20 years ago.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl

Joy isn’t something that we can coerce out of students.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl

They seem to expect to feel dead inside in the classroom, which is heartbreaking.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl

The opposite of joy isn’t suffering, it’s numbness.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl

People survive injustice and they thrive.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl

Resources* Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching & Learning for All, edited by Eileen Camfield * Ross Gay * Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity, by Michael S. Kimmel * SIFT * Audre Lorde * Martin Luther King Jr. * Mike Caulfield * Karl Marx * Stanley Milgram * Hannah Arendt * Joy Cards * Eichmann in Jerusalem * All My Relations Podcast