Teaching and Learning Our Everyday/s

Where are our everyday(s) in teaching and learning? Why connect our spaces of teaching and learning – within and beyond our classrooms – to the everyday? How does the everyday manifest in our spaces of learning? How do we connect our lived experiences to the worlds about which we teach and learn? How do we experience our teaching and learning as part of our everyday? Whose everyday(s) do we start with? How are we bringing our lived experiences and those of our students into the classroom? What are the pedagogical, personal, and political implications of starting with the everyday? How might the everyday be a site of resistance, hope and joy? These questions are at the heart of this volume, which, by focusing on the everyday, offers a vital, unique, and timely contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning in Political Science and International Studies. 

Gabrielle Daoust (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her research explores relationships between and responses to environmental and climate change and forms of insecurity, as well as changing forms, spaces, politics, and experiences of humanitarian response. Heather A. Smith (she/her) is a settler scholar and Professor of Global and International Studies who has a long history of publishing in gender and Canadian foreign policy, Canadian climate change policy and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is also a 3M National Teaching Fellow.