Everything is Pedagogy
Welcome to the Everything is Pedagogy podcast: Imprints of Inquiry, Possibilities for Play, the Pursuit of Questions, and Provocations for Living. This podcast, formerly known as Pursuing Questions and The Playful Podcast, is for those cultivating an ethos towards mutual flourishing, healing, learning and living well throughout the human experience. This is a passion project and the views represented here are my own. My name is Kim Barton (she/her), I am a RECE with an MSc, working as a pedagogical leader in Guelph (2 rivers) on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Haudenossaune, and Attawandaran peoples, and the treaty lands of Mississaugas of the Credit. Part of my responsibility as a guest on these lands is to ensure that I visit well, to express gratitude for Indigenous perspectives needed to protect the Lands and Water, learn and unlearn how colonization impacts myself and my work, and share/receive gifts in reciprocity with all my relations.
This work is guided by 4 pedagogical orientations and 4 values:
Imprints of Inquiry: I capture traces of my learning, because I believe they are worthy of being studied, critiqued, and expanded upon. What I say here is a landmark in time; not meant to be a destination. Rather, this knowledge is meant to be interpreted within the context discussed, and to support reflective practice, collaborative inquiry, and educator research.
Possibilities for Play: I aim to cultivate a parallel practice of playfulness by "going public" with experimental ideas to seek feedback, to embrace questioning and being questioned, to practice sharing (knowledge), and to play with new ideas. Much of what I share is in a light-hearted spirit of saying "yes" to what is offered my way, and responding as best I can with a playful intention.
The Pursuit of Questions: I desire to be guided by questions more than answers; by uncertainty more than solutions; by limerence more than destinations; and by the in-between more than the outcome. I am nurturing a process for designing powerful, magical questions to sustain lifelong inquiry.
Provocations for Living: I take up longitudinal inquiries across a wide range of concepts, dispositions, and ideas. What I share is meant to be generative, to activate possibility and life itself by provoking, expanding, and spiralling back to that which is most compelling within a pursuit.
Values:
Curiousity: questions are my compass, over compliance, normalcy, or acceptance.
Time: I do not rush teaching or learning processes, tasks, or people
Creativity: I construct generative offerings of material - new and old.
Reciprocity: I make knowledge accessible in the spirit of mutual flourishing.
You can find out more by checking out my website (https://playfulpedagogies.wordpress.com/) or Instagram (@pursuingquestions) to learn more about the pedagogical companionship and facilitation services that I offer.
Everything is Pedagogy
Season 3 - Pursuing Pedagogical Documentation and Reflective Practice Through Podcasting
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Why do we document? How do we document? What do we document? When do we document? When does documentation become pedagogical? What activates pedagogical documentation? What about pedagogy inherently documents? What routines and rituals facilitate and sustain my reflective, responsive, relational documentation practice? What are the precursors to creating stories about our practice that can reveal and illuminate our communal thinking, children's insights, and the big picture questions we are pursuing in our community? These are just some of the questions I'll be pursuing in season 3 as I explore the use of podcasting in my pedagogical documentation practice and reflective practice journey. Join me to hear my own reflections in action, how I decide to respond to various encounters, how I reflect and capture my decision making, how I critique my own best intentions, and how I become changed by studying my own documentation over time.