Teaching Civic Engagement (AAR Teaching Religious Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (741 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190692995 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Reflective essays from faculty members who teach across a broad range of institutional contexts give complexity and insight into how these objectives play out when teaching religious and theological studies. A must for any faculty member who is seeking to understand how and why to use experiential learning, service learning, action research, and other such community engagement formats of teaching." --Nadine S. It develops an original and helpful model to understand the continuum of teaching civic engagement tha
Using a new model focused on four core capacities-intellectual complexity, social location, empathetic accountability, and motivated action--Teaching Civic Engagement explores the significance of religious studies in fostering a vibrant, just, and democratic civic order.In the first section of the book, contributors detail this theoretical model and offer an initial application to the sources and methods that already define much teaching in the disciplines of religious studies and theology. The contributing authors model new ways of engaging questions of civic belonging and social activism in the religion classroom, belying the stereotype of the ivory tower intellectual.. A second section offers chapters focused on specific strategies for teaching civic engagement in religion classrooms, including traditional textual studies, reflective writing, community-based learning, field trips, media analysis, ethnographic methods, direct community engagement and a reflective practice of "ascetic withdrawal." The final section of the volume exp
He has published on different topics related to environmental theology and philosophy, as well as in the scholarship of teaching and learning.Reid B. He is the author of Spiritual but Not Religious? (2005); Liturgy of Liberation (2011); and other works in comparative theology, Hindu-Christian studies, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.. Forrest Clingerman is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Ohio Northern Universi