27 min
How Can We Practice Reciprocity? Three Questions about Teaching and Learning (3QTL)
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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, as instructors, are we in a reciprocal relationship with not only our students, but also with the knowledge we acquire through research and those spaces in which we conduct it? How did the sudden shift to online teaching and learning transform our abilities to “visit”? And how might centering reciprocity in our classroom practices also surface the importance of care, compassion, and—perhaps most importantly—a pedagogy of cute cats? Full episode transcript and references are available on our website.
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, as instructors, are we in a reciprocal relationship with not only our students, but also with the knowledge we acquire through research and those spaces in which we conduct it? How did the sudden shift to online teaching and learning transform our abilities to “visit”? And how might centering reciprocity in our classroom practices also surface the importance of care, compassion, and—perhaps most importantly—a pedagogy of cute cats? Full episode transcript and references are available on our website.
27 min