Panel proposed for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
July 8-11, 2025

Pedagogies often function like atmospheres, lingering in the background of learning scenarios and frequently remaining unacknowledged. Pedagogies commonly are thus inherited and under-scrutinized formations. However, like Earth’s physical atmosphere, pedagogical atmospheres are absolutely essential to what happens in the classroom and in learning situations more generally. They are the oxygen—or the lack thereof—of learning environments. The core question investigated by this panel is, How should our pedagogies change in light …