Transformations: The World Religions Survey through an Adjunct Feminist Lens

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 teachin...

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Publicado en:Teaching theology and religion
Autor principal: Downie, Alison (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
En: Teaching theology and religion
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AH Pedagogía de la religión
BG Grande religión
FD Teología contextual
ZF Pedagogía
Otras palabras clave:B introductory course
B underprepared students
B adjunct
B Feminist Theology
B Transformative Learning
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:1467-9647
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Teaching theology and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/teth.12285