UNLEARN
UNLEARN
Podcast Description
UNLEARN is a podcast for educators in Aotearoa New Zealand committed to creating gender-inclusive classrooms where students feel safe, respected, and empowered.
Each episode offers practical strategies from experts, helping us examine our biases, challenge gender stereotypes, and celebrate diverse gender identities. Join us as we unpack the complexities of gender and explore how small actions can build a real sense of belonging for every student.
Listen in on your commute or while doing the dishes—let’s unlearn together!
unlearnpod.blogspot.com
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The podcast emphasizes practical strategies for challenging biases, examining gender stereotypes, and celebrating diverse identities. Topics include creating safe(r) and brave(r) spaces for LGBTQIA+ communities, understanding cisnormativity, and utilizing gender statistics from recent studies to foster inclusivity, with episodes like 'Creating Safe(r) and Brave(r) Spaces' and 'How Gender Statistics Can Help Us Unlearn.'
UNLEARN is a podcast for educators in Aotearoa New Zealand committed to creating gender-inclusive classrooms where students feel safe, respected, and empowered.
Each episode offers practical strategies from experts, helping us examine our biases, challenge gender stereotypes, and celebrate diverse gender identities. Join us as we unpack the complexities of gender and explore how small actions can build a real sense of belonging for every student.
Listen in on your commute or while doing the dishes—let’s unlearn together!
unlearnpod.blogspot.com
In this episode, I sit down with Jade Tang Taylor, systems thinker, creative strategist, and social impact leader, to explore how systems thinking can support educators in creating change toward gender inclusion.
We unpack the Water of Systems Change model and reflect on the different levels where change can happen: structural, relational, and transformative. From school policies to power dynamics and mental models, we talk about how these layers interact and what makes meaningful change possible.
Jade shares insights from her mahi (work) in education, design, and community leadership, including work with collectives like SASS (Systems Change Advocacy, Solidarity and Support) and frameworks like Scaling Deep. We also talk about why centring lived experience, embracing discomfort, and holding on to hope are all part of the unlearning journey.
This conversation reminded me that while systems can be complex and entrenched, we educators have the power to stir the waters and to help shape gender-inclusive futures, one ripple at a time, especially when we dare to look below the surface.
You can find all the mentioned sources and some helpful reflective prompts at: unlearnpod.blogspot.com
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