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 episode

I 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