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Exploring Workplace Diversity on Screen: Tracing Representation Through Media

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Exploring Workplace Diversity on Screen: Tracing Representation Through Media

A teaching practice using film and TV to explore how workplace diversity is represented across time.

From The Office to The Circle: Reading Workplace Culture Through Popular Media

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From The Office to The Circle: Reading Workplace Culture Through Popular Media

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.

When Management Education Gets Its Hands Dirty: Reading Dallyn et al on Compost, Critique and Care

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When Management Education Gets Its Hands Dirty: Reading Dallyn et al on Compost, Critique and Care

Most sustainability teaching in business schools operates within "corporate sustainability solutionism"—we tick boxes about the SDGs while the house burns. Dallyn et al offer something different: literal compost bins as curriculum, connecting students with soil and the slow work of decomposition.

Field Note: Summer Expansions

Field Note: Summer Expansions

The term is over. Now comes this different time - not exactly rest, but expansion. I've been carrying fragments all year - ideas that sparked during workshops, questions from conversations, provocations from reading. Summer lets me spread these fragments out, see what connects.

Values Discovery Session: From Objects to Action

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Values Discovery Session: From Objects to Action

Students discover priorities through physical objects, then use assessment tools and group work to build ethical decision-making skills.

Field Note: Sustainability Mindset Indicator Reflections

Field Note: Sustainability Mindset Indicator Reflections

Understanding the Sustainability Mindset The Sustainability Mindset Indicator (SMI) assesses how we think, feel, and act in relation to our planetary moment. Rather than measuring knowledge about environmental issues, it explores the deeper patterns of consciousness that shape how we engage with complexity, uncertainty, and our interconnected challenges. At its

Nature Walk for Environmental Connection

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Nature Walk for Environmental Connection

Spend the entire session outdoors helping students develop genuine connection to the environment. This practice grounds students in place to understand why sustainability matters through felt experience rather than abstract concepts.

Visual Collaging for Complex Thinking

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Visual Collaging for Complex Thinking

Using magazine images and collaborative collaging to explore complex concepts through visual thinking. Reveals insights that analytical writing might miss, allowing students to hold complexity without immediate resolution. Works for any subject.

Authority Redistribution

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Authority Redistribution

Deliberately shift classroom power by giving students real authority over learning. Four methods for redistributing traditional teaching authority while maintaining goals. Students experience having their knowledge valued as legitimate.

Story From an Image

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Story From an Image

Simple creative practice for any classroom: students choose an image, create a story, share insights. Surfaces existing knowledge through collaborative storytelling. No wrong answers, any subject.

Small Stands, Big Questions

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Small Stands, Big Questions

I've stopped waiting for permission to teach differently. Working in the cracks means finding small spaces within institutional constraints where different relationships to learning become possible.

The Opening Question

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The Opening Question

Replace your usual session opening with a "what if" question tied to your topic. This is a fundamental reframing of the learning relationship. You're positioning students as capable of imagining alternatives rather than passive recipients of existing knowledge.

Teaching Otherwise: A Manifesto

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Teaching Otherwise: A Manifesto

Business schools speak responsibility fluently enough to pass any audit. We polish our mission statements in the language of sustainability and inclusion. We run workshops on values, ethics, and wellbeing. Yet trace these promises backwards and the same old logic hums beneath: growth is good, care is compliance, critique is