Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020.
If you are a professor who is looking to radically change your pedagogy and teaching this quarter, this post might be for you. Within the Freireian pedagogy seeks to make students producers rather than consumers of knowledge, some professors are looking to their students for input as to different media students will be reading/watching/listening to in their course.
Having students find and research and article/video/podcast that they want to share with the class within specific guidelines can be a great way to bring student voice into the class and give the option to read what their specific interests are. Additionally, it can help build strong research skills by having them engage with the different library databases that Western has access to. Here is an article to get you started about how one professor is co-creating her syllabus with her students.
Image Attribution: Exchange students by Mohamed Mb from the Noun Project