ABSTRACT
This chapter illuminates how equity-minded pedagogies and inclusive instructional practices like community building, relationship development, and structure can provoke and engender joy for instructors and students alike while improving student learning and success. While referencing 30+ years of teaching and learning scholarship and the author’s own two decades in teaching and faculty development, this chapter explores how centering relationships that uplift students’ identities, cultures, and knowledge allows teaching and learning to be more engaging, impactful, rejuvenating, and joyous for instructors at any stage of their teaching careers. (Not to mention how good it is for students!)
