Dr. Naeem Inayatullah is a Professor of Politics at Ithaca College in New York in the US. He has invested significant energy in thinking about how students learn global politics and how to create environments where that can happen. The most recent text exploring this is Pedagogy as Encounter: Beyond the Teaching Imperative (2022 Rowman & Littlefield). Naeem has also published widely on IR Theory and Global Political Economy.

The episode explores

· The value of the concept of “teaching” as a definition of the relationships we have with individuals in our courses

· Our often-unquestioned assumptions about students that determine so much about how we frame what we are up to

· Whether teaching global politics (or any topic) can ultimately change the world; and why we should devote ourselves to the project even if the answer is no.
The episode was edited for length,