WILU 2024

This workshop will highlight challenges that active learning, as a hegemonic practice, poses from the perspective of power, agency, and inclusion. Active learning represents a common teaching method for library educators and is seen to be an effective way to engage and motivate students. But is it always beneficial for learners? For teachers? Inspired by Hicks and Sinkinson's (2021) interrogation of active learning, we'll explore these questions in the context of library teaching through frameworks or lenses such as Indigenous, feminist, and critical pedagogies, and slow librarianship. Throughout, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on and engage with workshop content in a way that best meets their needs.