Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
You are invited to join colleagues in the School of Health and Wellbeing as we embark on a thought-provoking and transformative journey of critically reflecting on our individual positionalities (i.e. our social positions and identities in relation to those of others) and how they shape our teaching practices.
As teachers and researchers, we occupy positions of power in the creation and dissemination of knowledge, and we shape students’ interaction with it. Positionality exercises are powerful tools to help us recognise how we each influence and impact decisions about what counts as knowledge. They also facilitate the inclusion of students’ experiences in the classroom, in acknowledgement of their role as co-creators of knowledge and learning.
‘People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel’ (Maya Angelou, 2014)
Dr Hardeep Basra and Sumaya Loonat from De Montfort University are running this workshop to help us reflect on our identity as educators and how we appreciate our students as individuals. The session will offer practical strategies to move beyond superficial tweaks in our content to routinely foster an inclusive and equitable learning environment.