RT Article
T1 Transformations: The World Religions Survey through an Adjunct Feminist Lens
JF Teaching theology and religion
VO 18
IS 3
SP 193
OP 206
A1 Downie, Alison
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1566335094
AB This essay describes a transformation in my experience as an adjunct teaching underprepared students from one of shame toward a desire to assert the value of this work. Insights from my feminist theological training helped me to affirm the importance of encouraging transformative learning in teaching the academically marginalized and prompted my analysis of student writing in an introductory World Religions course, in order to determine whether or not the course was a site of transformative learning. I argue that despite many contextual limitations, the movement toward deepening self-awareness and increasing openness to religious diversity seen in student writing demonstrates that transformative learning began in this course, and that is valuable for students' lives whether or not they are academically successful.
K1 adjunct
K1 Feminist Theology
K1 introductory course
K1 Transformative Learning
K1 underprepared students
DO 10.1111/teth.12285