3QTL: Three Questions about Teaching and Learning

How might we reimagine what scholarship looks (and sounds) like in the twenty-first century? In this special reflection episode, Dr. Derritt Mason is joined by 3QTL consulting producer Dr. Stacey Copeland and Dr. Jill McSweeney-Flaherty, associate editor of the journal Teaching and Learning Inquiry , to discuss 3QTL Season 1's experimental peer review process—the journal's first-ever podcast revie...

We m ight not instinctively associate drag queens with teacher education, but for Dr. Harper Keenan, the queer imagination has tremendous potential to help us " unscript curriculum" and think about our classrooms in radically different ways . T he Robert Quartermain Professor of Gender and Sexuality Research in Education at the University of British Columb i a (UBC) , Dr. Keenan has initiated an i...

For Dr. Bryan Dewsbury, equity- minded , inclusive, or humanist teaching means distinguishing teaching students from teaching subject matter. The humanity of students , in other words , is prioritized over course content , and their lived experiences become vital to how the classroom operates . In our conversation, Dr. Dewsbury describes how he confronted the challenges of teaching online during C...

In a 3QTL first, we are delighted to feature two guests on today's episode: Dr. Patrina Duhaney and Dr. Regine King, the award-winning co-developers and instructors of a University of Calgary course entitled "Afrocentric Perspectives in Social Work." As members of their Faculty's Anti-Black Racism Task Force, which was established in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, Dr. King and Dr. Duha...

The most challenging years of COVID lockdowns found Dr. Morgan Vanek inhabiting the role of student more often than she might have expected. As she learned to parent, drive, and cook—all during a pandemic—Dr. Vanek found herself reflecting deeply on those core values that were guiding her teaching and learning practice, while simultaneously rediscovering the value of the Humanities for helping us...

We rarely imagine the library to be a "rowdy" space, but for Jessie Loyer, unruliness and quiet contemplation can (and should!) coexist in our libraries. Drawing from her research on Indigenous information literacy and the Cree legal concept of " wâhkôhtowin"—the imperative to know your relatives—Jessie invites us to rethink what it means to "visit" a library, both ethically and relationally. How,...

Justice, believing students, and believing in students: according to Dr. Cate Denial, these are the three pillars of "a pedagogy of kindness," an approach to teaching and learning that centers care for ourselves, as instructors, and care for our students. Dr. Denial, the Bright Distinguished Professor of American History and Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College, Illinois, is also the P...

Our social lives and community-driven projects were significantly affected during the pandemic , and it became especially difficult to organize innovative teaching and l earning experiences within such a context . Our guest this episode, Dr. Adela Kincaid, has much to say about some of these challenges . An assistant professor in the University of Calgary's International Indigenous Studies Program...

What do Mariah Carey, arts-based student feedback, and the Disabilit y Studies concept of "crip time" have in common? They all played integral roles in Dr. Alan Santinele Martino's approach to teaching and learning during the most challenging moments of the COVID-19 pandemic. An assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary , Dr. Martino is current...

How do we become creative people in the world, as both instructors and learners? For Dr. Laleh Behjat , professor of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary's Schulich School, creativity both necessitates and fosters courageous , car ing , and collaborative approaches to teaching and learning. In our conversatio n , Dr. Behjat shares how she and her colleagues renewed the...

Over the course of a twenty-five-year teaching career, Dr. Jesse Stommel has been interrogating the power dynamics that structure our grading and assessment practices. Every conversation about grades is also a conversation about power, he maintains, and "ungrading" might offer some possibilities for making our classrooms more inclusive, caring, and collaborative spaces. The rapid switch to online...

"3QTL: Three Questions About Teaching and Learning" is a podcast focused on innovative approaches to teaching and learning in higher education. In its first season, the podcast invites post-secondary faculty across disciplines to share their experiences during COVID-19. Our guests and host, Dr. Derritt Mason, discuss how the pandemic affected their teaching philosophy, what best supported or hinde...