In this seminar, Professor Dorthe Staunæs from the Danish School of Education (DPU), at Aarhus University (Denmark) will explore the promising (but disputed) pedagogies towards social and epistemic diversity in higher education. She will address a major shift in academia’s view of diversity as a driver of innovation, sustainability, and high-quality.
The seminar examines how the enactment of pedagogies of diversity are intertwined with and shaped by disciplines while challenging epistemic norms. It sets out to explore affective responses (unease, hope and resistance e.g.) to these pedagogical changes, also considering the haunting tensions arising from colonial legacies and anti-gender and nationalist sentiments.
This seminar aims to point to how conceptualising the intertwined epistemic and affective elements could advance our understanding of diversity pedagogy.
Location
Deakin Downtown
Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square, 727 Collins Street
Docklands VIC 3008
The seminar will also be available online via Zoom. Register for an online ticket for the link.
Dorthe Staunæs
Dorthe Staunæs is a professor at the Danish School of Education (DPU), Aarhus University, and has conducted research on diversity and leadership/policy for 25 years, with a particular focus on affect and intersectional subject formations in education. She is currently concluding the research projects Diversity Work as Mood Work and Affective Investments in Diversity Work in STEM. New projects investigate diversity pedagogy and diversity leadership across art academies, STEM, and professional education programs, viewed from both sides of a colonial relationship. An ongoing interest revolves around learning from regenerative leadership and exploring how more-than-human relations and entangled species (e.g., horses and humans) can become central to learning and leading social and epistemic diversity. Methodologically her work draws upon feminist new materialist, black feminist and more-than-human approaches.
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