This episode of Podagogies is an exploration of care, from showing care for students in our classes to how instructors can ensure their own care needs are met. Dr. May Friedman and Fiona Cheuk from Toronto Metropolitan University share their approaches to navigating this complicated balance.
May Friedman is a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Drawing from her own experiences as a fat racialized mother, May looks at unstable identities, including bodies that do not conform to traditional racial and national or aesthetic lines.
Fiona Ning Cheuk (they/them) is a gender neutral lecturer at the School of Disability Studies. Their pedagogical practices are informed by their continuous nurturing by queer, disabled, BIPOC community wisdom on how to survive and build resilient futures within academia.
Read the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/2v2nvcz4
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This episode of Podagogies is an exploration of care, from showing care for students in our classes to how instructors can ensure their own care needs are met. Dr. May Friedman and Fiona Cheuk from Toronto Metropolitan University share their approaches to navigating this complicated balance.
May Friedman is a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Drawing from her own experiences as a fat racialized mother, May looks at unstable identities, including bodies that do not conform to traditional racial and national or aesthetic lines.
Fiona Ning Cheuk (they/them) is a gender neutral lecturer at the School of Disability Studies. Their pedagogical practices are informed by their continuous nurturing by queer, disabled, BIPOC community wisdom on how to survive and build resilient futures within academia.
Read the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/2v2nvcz4
Live from the LTC: Conversations from TMU's 2025 Learning and Teaching Conference
Podagogies: A Learning and Teaching Podcast
34 minutes 47 seconds
5 months ago
Live from the LTC: Conversations from TMU's 2025 Learning and Teaching Conference
In this special edition of Podagogies, Chelsea and Curtis sit down with faculty, contract lecturers, and staff attending Toronto Metropolitan University’s 2025 Learning and Teaching Conference. The conference has been a tradition every May at TMU for over thirty years. From considering the impacts of GenAI, to imagining more collaborative, caring, and inclusive learning spaces, members of TMU’s teaching community share their thoughts and insights from this year’s event.
Many thanks to James Loney and Rachel Tekabo from TMU Libraries’ Digital Media Experience (DME) Lab for providing equipment and support for this recording. Photo credits: Nick Duarte and Robyn Joffe
Featuring:
Dr. Kateryna Metersky, Assistant Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
Louis Marrone, Contract Lecturer, Creative Industries
Sherry Yuan Hunter, Program Director, Community Services, The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education
Lori Beckstead, Associate Professor, Media Production
Allyson Miller, Director, Academic Integrity Office
Dr. Wendy Freeman, Associate Professor, Professional Communication
Dr. Glaucia Melo dos Santos, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Catherine Jenkins, Contract Lecturer, Professional Communication
Brian Norton, Program Manager, Gdoo-maawnjidimi Mompii Indigenous Student Services
Dr. Allison Petrozziello, Assistant Professor, Politics and Public Administration
Kamilah Clayton, Contract Lecturer, School of Social Work
Karen Arthurton, Contract Lecturer, School of Social Work
Read the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/579ez77m
Podagogies: A Learning and Teaching Podcast
This episode of Podagogies is an exploration of care, from showing care for students in our classes to how instructors can ensure their own care needs are met. Dr. May Friedman and Fiona Cheuk from Toronto Metropolitan University share their approaches to navigating this complicated balance.
May Friedman is a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Drawing from her own experiences as a fat racialized mother, May looks at unstable identities, including bodies that do not conform to traditional racial and national or aesthetic lines.
Fiona Ning Cheuk (they/them) is a gender neutral lecturer at the School of Disability Studies. Their pedagogical practices are informed by their continuous nurturing by queer, disabled, BIPOC community wisdom on how to survive and build resilient futures within academia.
Read the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/2v2nvcz4
