Learning Innovation: The Teaching & Learning Podcast

E56: The positionality effect – Building empathy through reflection and transparency about your place in the world

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Doctor Bhuvinder Vaid, an Education Developer from Capilano University, and Doctor Gwen Nguyen and Britt Dzioba who are Advisors on the Learning and Teaching team at BCcampus, join the pod for a sustained conversation around positionality.


This trio dives deeply into this concept, and explores how positionality is a practice that can break down equity barriers and help students feel a greater sense of inclusivity and belonging in their learning environments.

Bhuvinder, Britt and Gwen share how to craft a positionality statement, and how taking this reflexive step in your teaching practice can help you and your students relate with each other, and even foster deeper community in your classroom.

During the episode, Gwen, Bhuvinder, Britt and Donna (host) mention:

  • BCcampus 
  • Capilano University 
  • Gwen & Bhuvinder’s FLO Friday Webinar: Where to Position Positionality in Your Work 
  • Positionality versus Intersectionality
  • UBC – University of British Columbia  
  • University of Victoria 
  • BC Ministry of Children and Family Development  
  • Instructor Certification Program (ICP) at Lethbridge College 
  • Universal design for learning (UDL)
  • Bringing the Practice of Positionality into Teaching and Learning by Britt Dzioba
  • This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (by Tiffany Jewell) 
  • Haiku – a Japanese form of poetry with 3 lines: the first line contains 5 syllables, the second contains 7 syllables, and the last line contains 5 syllables 
  • Reflect on Your Positionality to Ensure Student Success by Christine Harrington
  • SoTL - Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 
  • “Hope is like a road in the country, there is never a road but when people walk on it, the road comes into existence” a variation of the poem by Lin Yutang 
  • Community of Practice 
  • Lillooet (Stʼatʼimc) 
  • Squamish 
  • Musqueam 
  • Sechelt (shíshálh nation) 
  • Tsleil-Waututh 
  • Halkomelem (also known as Burnaby, BC) 
  • Lekwungen
    • Esquimalt and Songhees (also known as Victoria, BC) 
  • míqәn (Beacon Hill Park)
  • See Britt's Digital Positionality Collage below ⤵️

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