The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: teaching

  • Teaching Information Literacy in an Era of Misinformation

    My new courses start tomorrow, so I’m putting the finishing touches on this week’s materials. Last summer, I encountered more challenges with generative AI-composed writing than in any previous term, so this year the theme for my writing courses is AI, research, and writing. We’ll spend the whole term considering how the dramatic increase in…

  • Hurt at Work: Workers’ Memorial Day and the Practice of a Pedagogy of Kindness

    From Cate Denial’s A Pedagogy of Kindness: “We deserve an academy that is kind. Somewhere along the way, many of us were taught that the academy should be a place of intense competition, where we had rivals, not colleagues; where the most important insights and best ideas were those that rose to the top by…

  • Clearing Space for Kindness

    “Kindness” is not a concept that I always associate with higher education, or with education in general. Learning is difficult, but that inherent challenge has been compounded by the human and thus imperfect systems that we’ve built: Grading. Ranking. Prize Days and Spelling Bees. Attendance requirements that punish the chronically ill. The endless, disheartening casualization…