Episode 5: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Student Well-Being
In this fifth episode, the guests explore questions of curriculum and pedagogy that arise from the idea of making school education primarily about student well-being. They engage with the question about the relationship between the teaching of traditional core school subjects and the idea that school education is primarily about student well-being, and with questions about curricular and pedagogical implications for the teaching of school subjects if school education is to be primarily about student well-being.
Guests
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Michael Link
Michael Link is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg. Prior to the University of Winnipeg, Mike was an elementary school teacher in Surrey and Abbotsford, British Columbia for 13 years. His research interests are in the fields of ecojustice education, education for sustainability, and child well-being, and the connections of these three fields to teacher education.
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Jennifer Watt
Jennifer Watt is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. Before becoming a teacher educator, Jen was a middle and senior year English Language Arts teacher in Ontario and England. Her research interests are in the fields of place-based writing and walking/movement literacies, addressing gender-based sexual violence in K-12 schools through critical media studies, and well-being and well-becoming in schools, particularly in times of discomfort and uncertainty. Jen is co-director of the Manitoba Writing Project.