Book 4, Ep. 6 | The Return of Pedagogy
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We're revisiting pedagogy, Witches!
We first tackled this topic to kick off Season Three by defining the term and considering the teaching methods of various Hogwarts professors (using a D&D Alignment Chart, of course). In this episode, however, we get a bit more granular and look closely at the teaching style of Barty Crouch Jr. and his impersonation of Professor Moody. Ultimately, we get to ask the question: Is Professor Moody AKA Barty Crouch Jr. a great teacher? Can he be one despite his obvious flaws (like...being a Death Eater)? With a little help from Jane Gallop's book, PEDAGOGY: The Question of Impersonation, we dig into the man, the myth, the Moody: Barty Crouch Jr. Tune in for what might be the most lively discussion about pedagogy ever caught on tape.
Content Warning: In this episode, we briefly discuss child abuse and grooming as it pertains to Barty Crouch Jr.'s teaching style.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Which Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Marcel Cosmon, and I'm Hannah McGregor, and it has been a while since we've had |
| 0:22.0 | a good old-fashioned catch-up, and I think we should do that in the sorting chat. |
| 0:27.6 | You know, I think that's a great idea, definitely not the result of one of us not knowing what |
| 0:33.5 | to do for the sorting chat this week. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, Marcel, you have to go first then, so tell me what's new with you. |
| 0:39.4 | No, it says right here in the script, you're so right, Hannah. |
| 0:42.8 | How are you? |
| 0:43.8 | What have you been up to? |
| 0:45.1 | It's been a weird summer, hasn't it? |
| 0:47.0 | It has been a weird summer, but what's new with me is that it is currently early August |
| 0:52.2 | when we are recording, and today was my first day back at work. |
| 0:56.9 | After four weeks of vacation, and I spent the morning reading and organizing my email |
| 1:10.7 | inbox while resisting the urge to have a temper tantrum because I don't want to do it. |
| 1:18.9 | And that's my sort of inside view at what your professor is secretly going through. |
| 1:24.6 | Oh, that's so good. |
| 1:27.1 | A reel behind the music moment for sure. |
| 1:29.9 | So I have a month now to totally design the courses I'm going to be teaching this fall, |
| 1:38.9 | and ideally design them in such a way that they are ready for moving back online if that turns out |
| 1:45.6 | to be necessary. |
| 1:47.6 | And I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to do that, and I don't want to queue |
| 1:53.4 | temper tantrum here. |
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