Shakespeare, Race and Pedagogy Podcast

www.shakeracepedagogy.com Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy is a podcast and education initiative, created by Dr Wendy Lennon, which seeks to share, celebrate, and reinvigorate approaches to the teaching and study of literature. Bringing together contributions from international scholars, teachers, students, and our multilingual communities to investigate literary texts and their place in our world and in our lives.

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Episodes

Sunday May 18, 2025

What is the role of embodied cognition for exploring issues of social justice?
What is the value of sixteenth century poetry in developing twenty-first century language skills?
How can working with the deaf community further illuminate social justice and early modern poetry?
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Sunday May 18, 2025

What tools and methodologies can be employed to challenge implicit biases in classroom interactions and assessment?
How can we foster meaningful and productive discussions about privilege, intersectionality and race in a manner that ensures an inclusive, safe and non-defensive environment for both educators and students?
How can we actively challenge and dismantle the existing limiting practices within our pedagogical spaces to create equitable and inclusive learning experiences?
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Sunday May 18, 2025

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Sunday May 18, 2025

How can we reassess existing pedagogical frameworks to focus on student centred learning approaches?
Why is it important to remember that Shakespeare is drama, not just a text to be studied in a classroom?
How can we incorporate multimedia to reinvigorate teaching and learning?
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Sunday May 18, 2025

What is the purpose, value and importance of studying art history?
How can galleries develop our understanding of historical contexts through their captions and signs?
How do early modern portraits reveal constructions of gender, race and class?
Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Dr Janet Couloute.
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Monday May 05, 2025

How can we engage schools in Shakespeare and higher education?
How can we ensure that critical race studies continues to develop higher education?
How can critical race studies speak to wider social and cultural contexts?
Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Professor Liz Oakley-Brown.
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Sunday Apr 27, 2025

What are the connections between Shakespeare and the Indian identity?
Is Shakespeare in popular culture frivolous, superficial and self indulgent?
How can Shakespeare be adapted for our current times?
Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Dr Koel Chatterjee.
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Sunday Apr 20, 2025

When teaching Shakespeare through personal and societal crises, how can Shakespeare help us to access and share feelings in meaningful ways?
How does Shakespeare read us?
How does the familiar shape and structure of a five act Shakespeare play provide us with a template to form our own stories?
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Sunday Apr 13, 2025

How can we include Shakespeare and pre-modern notions of race in African American and Africana literature classrooms?
Is there a way to dismantle rigid hierarchies which gatekeep Shakespeare?
How can we work collaboratively to effectively teach ShakeRace?
Dr Wendy Lennon in conversation with Dr Hannah Bowling.
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Sunday Apr 06, 2025

What is Lit in Colour?
How can schools work collaboratively to develop and improve their curriculum?
How can we reform English teaching to improve our students' learning experience and progression to prepare them for their future careers?
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