<p>Alexandra (Ana) Kogl shares about her chaper in Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education on episode 581 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br />
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<h2>Quotes from the episode</h2>
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<p>I didn&#8217;t expect to find joy in the classroom when I started teaching political science 20 years ago.<br />
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl</p>
<p>Joy isn&#8217;t something that we can coerce out of students.<br />
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl</p>
<p>They seem to expect to feel dead inside in the classroom, which is heartbreaking.<br />
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl</p>
<p>The opposite of joy isn&#8217;t suffering, it&#8217;s numbness.<br />
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl</p>
<p>People survive injustice and they thrive.<br />
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl</p>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Joy-Centered-Pedagogy-in-Higher-Education-Uplifting-Teaching-and-Learning-for-All/Camfield/p/book/9781032872889">Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education: Uplifting Teaching &#38; Learning for All, edited by Eileen Camfield</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.rossgay.net/">Ross Gay</a></li>
<li><a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-97379-006">Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity, by Michael S. Kimmel</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/">SIFT</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde">Audre Lorde</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hapgood.us/author/mcaulfield/">Mike Caulfield</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx">Karl Marx</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Milgram">Stanley Milgram</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt">Hannah Arendt</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bit.ly/joy-cards">Joy Cards</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem">Eichmann in Jerusalem</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/">All My Relations Podcast</a></li>
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