Teaching Entanglements – Spring 2023

Educator Wellbeing Network @ Pratt CTL – Spring 2023

With Bethany Ides (Adjunct Associate Professor,

Humanities & Media Studies, Pratt Institute)

Over the course of 3 cumulative conversations, we’ll read and discuss excerpts from Shawn Wilson’s Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods, focusing particularly on his framing of relational accountability.  What changes when we shift away from terms claiming possession (“my art,” “her practice”) and toward language signifying interdependence?  How might teaching accommodate an understanding of things (objects, skills, ideas, natural elements, forms of life) not so much as a set of qualities but rather as knots of shared experience?  

This dynamic book proposes a disposition toward making thinking that defies dominant subjecthood.  Wilson combines several registers of address and modes of textual engagement, blending scholarship with kinship.  I’m excited to explore these strategies for writing and forming systems of support with other teachers.  For each session, I’ll select portions short enough to read together and reflect on in real time. PDFs of excerpts will be shared ahead of time upon request. 

  • Session 1 – Thursday 3/23 from 3:00 – 4:15 pm
  • Session 2 – Thursday 4/6 from 3:00 –  4:15 pm
  • Session 3 – Thursday 4/13 from 3:00 – 4:15 pm

RSVP here:  https://pratt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwldO6oqzIjGNeUdBnSQzsd4DSPqiW7WZ2y



Upcoming events at the CTL:

Crafting Community / Making Meaning
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Creative practices help us process uncertainty, build community, and find new perspectives on challenges. In this series, we’ll be engaging in various community building activities and creative exercises (e.g., collaging, origami, and more). We’ll meet in person in the East Reading Room (Library, 2nd Floor) on select Mondays from 12:30pm to 1:30pm.
ViRC: Focused Work Sessions
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Have you been pushing a task back on your to-do list? Do you benefit from “study hall” sessions where colleagues quietly work on individual projects in a shared space? Try out a Virtual Research Cave (ViRC)!
New Inclusive Classroom Book Club: FA26
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We invite all Pratt faculty to join our reading discussion group based on the book The New College Classroom by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis this Spring semester.

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