1001: Digging Deeper in Teaching & Learning: Speculative Pedagogy

Speculative pedagogy explores how change is possible outside the classroom by envisioning and practicing changemaking within the microsociety of the course. This session will introduce speculative pedagogy as a tool for creating innovative classrooms that help students imagine the possibilities that our fields can support. Through this practice, students can claim their own power in dismantling seemingly insurmountable systems of oppression. Following a brief presentation on the topic, participants will grapple with such questions as: What possibilities would you like students to see in the world by participating in your class and practicing course skills? What opportunities do your students have to practice exercising the power to imagine and construct a new reality? How does this speculative approach to teaching align (or not) with your teaching values?

• Describe speculative pedagogy

• Contemplate the implications of speculative teaching practices in the higher education classroom

• Enact speculative engagement by envisioning new classroom possibilities