This is a conversation with my home garden and a narrative of myself as a gardener striving to maneuver the familiar, insensitive illusion of totality conveyed in the phrase 'my garden'. Arguing for a critique of anthropocentrism, individualism, and modern knowledge-making practices that reinforce subjectivities of detachment and human-centered…

This essay draws upon my experiences teaching the undergraduate course, "Communication at the End of the World," to argue for an approach to critical communication pedagogy (CCP) contextualized by and reflexively responsive to planetary-scale ecological crises. I outline how five commitments have come to guide my classroom's explorations…

As a principal, coach, or instructional leader, you are responsible for helping to shape the professional development of the teachers in your school. Every conversation has the potential to offer deeper learning--but not every conversation delivers on this promise. "Growth Talk: A Coaching Way of Leading in Schools" offers a practical…

Over the past 25 years, educators and activists have used ally development models to emphasize how someone with privilege can enact solidarity across identity differences. Conceptualizing how people develop into "allies," is even more pressing in the aftermath of the largest racial justice protests in recorded US history with concerns…

This portraiture-informed study by Taeyeon Kim challenges the dominant discourse of accountability, which often focuses on high-stakes policies at the expense of relational aspects of accountability in schools. Building on working theories of accountability, humanizing leadership, and paradox theory, Kim theorizes the "human side of…

This article explores the response of higher education to the global refugee crisis, highlighting the notably low 6% enrollment rate for individuals with refugee backgrounds. We discuss the struggles of refugee students and trace the evolving support efforts by humanitarian and educational organizations. Recognizing the daunting task of…

Background: The field of the learning sciences is embroiled in debates about if, how, where, and when to engage equity in the learning sciences. This paper intervenes in this conversation by calling for more explicit and direct approaches to centering equity and justice in the field's practices and research. Methods: This conceptual paper draws on…

This teaching note reviews a four-part discussion post assignment that asks Black-identified students enrolled in a class connected to a Black living-learning community to make sociological and personal connections to concepts related to race, anti-Blackness, and institutional racism in Yaa Gyasi's novel "Homegoing." Reflecting on their…

This study aims to explore reimagined accountability through collective efforts initiated by school leaders and to challenge the fixed notion of accountability prescribed by policy scripts. Drawing on studies highlighting humanizing leadership and the metaphors of "agora" and "bazaar," I investigate how school leaders…

School librarians often find themselves betwixt two different worlds that come with quite varied expectations. They are seen as the arbiters of traditional learning and academia, with library spaces providing books and quiet places for self-enrichment and study. They are also often given the responsibility of being the building's technology…

Kristján Kristjánsson is one of the most prominent neo-Aristotelian defenders of the view that flourishing is the primary aim of education. Although he supports most aspects of Aristotle's theory, Kristjánsson argues that Aristotle failed to capture the significance of awe for human flourishing. Kristjánsson seeks to remedy this deficiency. While…

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a broad and varied field of study replete with compelling advocacies for a more humane world. Across a majority of its instances however, ESD might yet be seen to labour in stealth fidelity to a mode of political economy and model of human-nature relations complicit with planetary ecocide. This essay…

This paper/visual art/puppet show is about the more-than-human entities who help me include my whole self in my teaching and other research. It is about how generative it is to be our whole, sacred, profane, glorious selves. This art reminds us of the importance of dreaming beyond what we have been told is possible. It demonstrates how irreverent,…

Humanizing STEM education advances the concern for humanity and welfare of students in STEM education. Cultures of care can be considered as strong endeavors to humanize STEM education. Cultivating STEM cultures of care requires conscious values-based leadership. To explore conscious values-based STEM leaders' perceptions on STEM cultures of care,…

Deeper life interactions with students--which include conversations and relationships that occur around meaning, value, and purpose--have been shown to positively influence student success. The promotion of these interactions offers a dual-purpose: help retain students "and" impact the student experience beyond retention. In doing so,…