This is a presentation from one of my courses during my time in the UNBC Education program. The course focused on our positionalities as teachers, and how it will affect our styles of teaching. I wanted to add my presentation to my blog, so that others can see my specific positionality.
To quickly explain the definition of positionality, it is “where one is located in relation to their various social identities (gender, race, class, ethnicity, ability, geographical location etc.); the combination of these identities and their intersections shape how we understand and engage with the world, including our knowledges, perspectives, and teaching practices. As individuals and as instructors, we occupy multiple identities that are fluid and dialogical in nature, contextually situated, and continuously amended and reproduced” (Alcoff, 1988).