Everything is Pedagogy
Welcome to the Everything is Pedagogy podcast: Imprints of Inquiry, Possibilities for Play, the Pursuit of Questions, and Provocations for Living. This podcast, formerly known as Pursuing Questions and The Playful Podcast, is for those cultivating an ethos towards mutual flourishing, healing, learning and living well throughout the human experience. This is a passion project and the views represented here are my own. My name is Kim Barton (she/her), I am a RECE with an MSc, working as a pedagogical leader in Guelph (2 rivers) on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Haudenossaune, and Attawandaran peoples, and the treaty lands of Mississaugas of the Credit. Part of my responsibility as a guest on these lands is to ensure that I visit well, to express gratitude for Indigenous perspectives needed to protect the Lands and Water, learn and unlearn how colonization impacts myself and my work, and share/receive gifts in reciprocity with all my relations.
This work is guided by 4 pedagogical orientations and 4 values:
Imprints of Inquiry: I capture traces of my learning, because I believe they are worthy of being studied, critiqued, and expanded upon. What I say here is a landmark in time; not meant to be a destination. Rather, this knowledge is meant to be interpreted within the context discussed, and to support reflective practice, collaborative inquiry, and educator research.
Possibilities for Play: I aim to cultivate a parallel practice of playfulness by "going public" with experimental ideas to seek feedback, to embrace questioning and being questioned, to practice sharing (knowledge), and to play with new ideas. Much of what I share is in a light-hearted spirit of saying "yes" to what is offered my way, and responding as best I can with a playful intention.
The Pursuit of Questions: I desire to be guided by questions more than answers; by uncertainty more than solutions; by limerence more than destinations; and by the in-between more than the outcome. I am nurturing a process for designing powerful, magical questions to sustain lifelong inquiry.
Provocations for Living: I take up longitudinal inquiries across a wide range of concepts, dispositions, and ideas. What I share is meant to be generative, to activate possibility and life itself by provoking, expanding, and spiralling back to that which is most compelling within a pursuit.
Values:
Curiousity: questions are my compass, over compliance, normalcy, or acceptance.
Time: I do not rush teaching or learning processes, tasks, or people
Creativity: I construct generative offerings of material - new and old.
Reciprocity: I make knowledge accessible in the spirit of mutual flourishing.
You can find out more by checking out my website (https://playfulpedagogies.wordpress.com/) or Instagram (@pursuingquestions) to learn more about the pedagogical companionship and facilitation services that I offer.
Everything is Pedagogy
Rethinking Administration as a Pedagogical Practice
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Season 4, Episode 4 was recorded in August 2025, but published nearly a year later. Guiding administrative processes in an undervalued sector is vulnerable and harrowing work to begin with, but becomes particularly potent at the intersection of operations and pedagogy. This is an intersection I visit regularly and one I have little to offer, other than observations which are documented here. This reflection was recorded while on a dog walk where I am initially pondering what greetings and goodbyes teach us about belonging, and how that question invites us to rethink administrative processes. Through continued reflection on topics like child protection and policy writing, this episode invites listeners to wonder about how learning communities can uphold practices that go beyond compliance, by creating a culture of accountability and care.
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