Description

Overview:

This assignment is inspired by the learnings that arose from the workshop, “Fostering Play in the Classroom - Pedagogies to Build Creativity, Connection and Light to Oppressive Spaces”. Based on group dialogue, feedback, and the desire to build on pedagogies of play in the workshop, this science fiction short story assignment has been created as an additional layer of liberatory, contemplative learning for students that can be used/tweaked to work in a variety of courses. Powerful conversations arose in the workshop surrounding power/oppression, positionality and how this impacts our ability to engage in play, and the importance of holding both/and (i.e. - joy/sadness, pain/pleasure, restriction/liberation). This assignment attempts to deepen these reflections through creativity, storytelling, and removal of limits for dreaming in a world with obstacles. 

Subject:

Applied Science, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Health, Medicine and Nursing, Information Science, Technology, Arts and Humanities, Art History, Graphic Arts, Languages, Literature, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Visual Arts, World Cultures, Business and Communication, Communication, Journalism, Public Relations, Career and Technical Education, Film and Music Production, Graphic Design, Education, Higher Education, English Language Arts, Composition and Rhetoric, Reading Foundation Skills, Reading Literature, Speaking and Listening, History, Law, Life Science, Physical Science, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology

Level:

Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division, Graduate / Professional, Career / Technical, Adult Education

Material Type:

Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lesson, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author:

Christina Katopodis

Date Added:

04/27/2021