EPisodes: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

32: The Importance of Empathy and Humour

December 08, 2020 Education Perfect Season 3 Episode 14
EPisodes: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
32: The Importance of Empathy and Humour
Show Notes

Philippa Kruger talks to William Connor, a producer of the animated series Lifeswap, a series of short animated Skype conversations between two young men Jörg, 27 from Münster, Germany and Duncan, 27 from Wellington, New Zealand. William works on the Lifeswap episodes with his husband, animator Steffan Kreft.  In this episode William discusses what goes on behind the scenes with Lifeswap and also gives some advice for us at the end of what has been a crazy year.

"As Language Teachers, [or] any kind of teacher, our job is to provide bridges for people to walk away from themselves, walk away from their narrow perspective and see themselves and their cultures and their languages, from the other side of a divide."