Curriculum Encounters
A podcast about exploring knowledge wherever you find it, from the Black Paint Curriculum Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Curriculum is not just a set of prescribed knowledge, but a social, spatial, and sensory process. Learning happens everywhere, not just in formal educational settings. Hosts Jackie Simmons and Sarah Gerth van den Berg encourage listeners to recognize the importance of these informal, sensory, and embodied forms of knowing and to consider how they might be integrated into curriculum design to create more engaging and holistic learning experiences.
Meet Your Hosts
Program Director, Master of Arts and Master of Education in Curriculum & Teaching
Jacqueline Simmons is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University and Program Director for the masters programs in curriculum studies. Her research examines the design, theory, and critical analysis of curricula with particular attention to youth, media, sense-making, and conceptions of innovation. Learn more at: www.jaxsie.com
Program Director, Master of Arts and Master of Education in Curriculum & Teaching
Jacqueline Simmons is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University and Program Director for the masters programs in curriculum studies. Her research examines the design, theory, and critical analysis of curricula with particular attention to youth, media, sense-making, and conceptions of innovation. Learn more at: www.jaxsie.com
Sarah Gerth is a Visiting Researcher at the Digital Futures Institute, whose research involves the role of senses, affects, and materiality in ways of knowing. She is the Dean of the City Learning Ecology at City Seminary of New York, where she designs curriculum at the intersection of creative practice, place, and theology, and co-founder of Shapes of Knowledge, a curriculum design studio for creative engagements with learning. Learn more at: www.shapesofknowledge.studio
Jackie and Sarah collaboratively run the Black Paint Curriculum Lab,
a creative space for faculty, students, and alumni to reimagine
possibilities for curriculum making as a public endeavor.
Learn more about the Black Paint Curriculum Lab at www.tc.columbia.edu/black-paint-curriculum-lab
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