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Sustainable Teaching: Why We Design for Students But Not for Ourselves
We'll talk about sustainable business, sustainable systems, sustainable development goals, but the sustainability of the people doing the teaching rarely makes the list.
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As a mode of inquiry, a way of engaging with uncertainty that is rigorous, ethical, and genuinely transformative. We're calling it futuring as inquiry, and it's been reshaping how I think about what futures literacy actually demands of us as educators.
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What's In Your Bag? I'm carrying two bags today. A Rough Trade tote with my planner, journal, pens, washi tape, stickers, headphones, a book, water bottle. And a large black leather tote with my laptop, keys, purse, clicker, and an embarrassing number of forgotten receipts, browning
Teaching Practices
I've just spent two days building with Lego. Climate Play uses LEGO Serious Play methodology, a facilitated process where you think with your hands, build metaphorical models, and tell the story of what you've made.
On the difference between teaching about sustainability and actually reckoning with it.
For educators who want to help students engage with uncertainty rather than just prepare for it.
On what it actually feels like to learn something that matters, and what it costs to teach it. There's a version of transformative pedagogy that makes it sound straightforwardly good. Students flourish, assumptions unravel, something shifts. The language of progressive education is full of this: growth, aliveness, possibility.
For educators who want to teach differently but aren't sure where to start — or who are already experimenting and want language for what they're doing.
rethinking how we teach, learn, and work together
LJMU's Curriculum Enhancement Internships scheme is funding four student interns to spend six months mapping joy in teaching.
On the difference between teaching about sustainability and actually reckoning with it.
For educators who want to help students engage with uncertainty rather than just prepare for it.
On what it actually feels like to learn something that matters, and what it costs to teach it. There's a version of transformative pedagogy that makes it sound straightforwardly good. Students flourish, assumptions unravel, something shifts. The language of progressive education is full of this: growth, aliveness, possibility.
For educators who want to teach differently but aren't sure where to start — or who are already experimenting and want language for what they're doing.
Because HR education shouldn't just prepare people for the future of work — it should help them imagine the work of the future.
A reflection on sympoiesis and what it means to think without bounded individuals "Nothing makes itself; nothing is really autopoietic or self-organizing." This simple statement from Donna Haraway's chapter on sympoiesis carries a radical challenge that keeps unfolding the more I sit with it. It'
A field note on building a portfolio approach that asks students to develop ethical analysis through cultural engagement—not just case studies I'm launching a new assessment this term for Ethical Practice and Behaviours with my second year HRM students, and it builds directly on my earlier thinking
Explore media-making as sense-making pedagogy: how students creating podcasts, zines, and videos develops collaborative knowledge creation.
UK business schools optimise for metrics, not imagination. Teaching Otherwise calls for disruption: creative pedagogy, futures literacy, and ethical learning.
A teaching practice using film and TV to explore how workplace diversity is represented across time.
Analyse workplace culture through popular media. From The Office to The Circle, learn how films and TV reveal changing workplace ideologies and what alternatives might be possible.