Pedagogical Mixtape #1: Identity, Knowledge, and Teaching

Due: September 8, 2026
Points: 20
Minimum Length: 250 words

This week, we are thinking about how our experiences, identities, cultures, and educational histories shape what we believe about knowledge, teaching, and learning. Our readings from Carter G. Woodson and Gholdy Muhammad invite us to consider not only what happens in schools, but also how education influences the ways students understand themselves and the world around them.

For your first Mixtape, select a song, image, artwork, film clip, podcast, article, social media post, speech, historical artifact, community text, or another cultural or intellectual source that you believe belongs in conversation with this week's learning.

Suggestions

Your selection might help us think about:

• how educational experiences shape what we believe about learning
• identity and how we understand ourselves as learners or educators
• what counts as knowledge and who gets to decide
• the relationship between culture, history, and education
• an experience or perspective that complicates traditional ideas about schooling
• an idea from Woodson or Muhammad that you want to extend, question, or complicate

These are suggestions, not questions you are required to answer. You may take your Mixtape in another direction as long as you can explain its relationship to this week's learning.

What to Submit

Include your selection or a link to it and a minimum 250-word reflection.

Briefly identify what you selected, but spend most of your reflection explaining why you selected it and what it contributes to our thinking. Your selection might extend, complicate, challenge, historicize, connect, or offer another perspective on something from the readings, our class discussion, or your own experiences.

The goal is not simply to show that your selection relates to this week's topic. Explain what it helps us see, question, or understand differently.