Rehumanizing Higher Education With Emily Alicia Affolter, PhD
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The education system is designed to shape knowledgeable, responsible, and well-rounded individuals. However, higher education is currently suffering from various problems that unfortunately lead to discrimination, stereotyping, and unfair culture. Corinna Bellizzi chats with Dr. Emily Alicia Affolter, who is on a mission to bring back the human aspect of higher education. They discuss how to dismantle the destructive supremacy culture and bring a pedagogy of love to school curriculums. Dr. Emily also presents their sustainable related PhD programs that practice emergent strategies to allow learners to take on divergent career paths.
About Guest:
Dr. Emily Alicia Affolter (she/ella/they) is the director of and faculty for Prescott College's Sustainability Education Ph.D. Program. Prior to this role, she worked as a Senior Research Scientist and Equity Consultant at the University of Washington’s Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Multicultural Education from the UW working alongside Dr. Geneva Gay, founder of culturally responsive teaching. Emily's current scholarship, dissemination, and facilitation highlight culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies for teachers, faculty, and leaders in K-16 settings and STEM higher education utilizing an equity literacy frame, supported by the National Science Foundation largely. Additionally, Emily’s latest teaching centers on decolonizing research, equitable research methodologies, and liberatory organizational change methods.
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-affolter-776722a/
Additional Resources Mentioned: https://prescott.edu/area-of-study/sustainability-education-phd/
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| 0:00.0 | We want people to disseminate the ideas that they have. We really believe that too few people |
| 0:05.9 | fear sharing their belief systems and it's great practice. So that's number one. It's just like, |
| 0:12.7 | we need more practice and we especially being folks that have less proximity to power. There's a lot |
| 0:19.5 | of data on how important it is for women in higher |
| 0:23.6 | ed to learn to self-promote. Even though self-promotion, there's a lot of people cringe at that, |
| 0:29.2 | like, oh, no, you've got to be humble and be polite. But honestly, there's a lot of data that |
| 0:34.8 | show how self-promotion can really advance someone's |
| 0:38.1 | status and career, and we do want to see more equitable roles in faculty and leadership positions. |
| 0:44.8 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social |
| 0:50.6 | impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:54.3 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:59.6 | You'll learn how you can make a difference. |
| 1:01.5 | Vote with your dollars and get involved today. |
| 1:04.5 | Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. |
| 1:09.4 | Hello, fellow do you bitters and friends. I'm your host, Karina Baliti. |
| 1:13.6 | For all of you have been wondering what more you can do to create a more sustainable, |
| 1:17.8 | regenerative future in which we can all thrive, I invite you to open yourself, |
| 1:22.3 | to listen today with an engaged mind, with curiosity, and to ultimately be ready to get your notebook out |
| 1:29.1 | and take notes as I interview Dr. Emily Alicia Affalter. I ventured a guest that will all be doing |
| 1:35.6 | that. Now, Dr. Emily Affalter is the director of Anne Faculty for Prescott College's Sustainability |
| 1:42.0 | Education PhD program. Prior to this role, she worked as a senior |
| 1:46.7 | research scientist and equity consultant at the University of Washington's Center for Evaluation |
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