Teaching

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My teaching philosophy is centered around meeting and engaging the student where they are developmentally and adjusting my teaching strategies as needed to help critically engage with the material. Rooted in an understanding that knowledge is constructed rather than received, I continually seek to understand how students learn by co-creating their own knowledge in the context of their lived experiences. 

These human-centered approaches are deeply situated within my ongoing efforts to transform my classes to be more inclusive and equitable by employing decolonial and anti-racist strategies. In all of my courses, I create a supportive environment that acknowledges students’ differences and treats them with respect. I want students to see themselves as designers and challenge dominant narratives of who gets to participate in the field. To achieve this, I have diversified my examples in class and sought to decenter dominant, Western narratives, and traditional design canons. All of this work requires my own reflexivity and recognizing the ways in which my own identity generates politics in the classroom.  

In addition to these broad approaches of human-centered design and equitable pedagogy, I focus on three key areas of learning within my design and design management courses: knowledge of the practice, knowledge of the self, and knowledge of each other.