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- Title
Forum: Crafting the Introductory Course in Religious Studies.
- Authors
McCutcheon, Russell T.; Hollander, Aaron T.; Durdin, Andrew F.; Gardner, Kelli A.; Miller, Adam T.; Crews, Emily D.
- Abstract
This series of short essays considers the complex choices and decision-making processes of instructors preparing to teach, and continuing to teach, introductory courses in religious studies. In a paper originally presented in the University of Chicago's ' The Craft of Teaching in the Academic Study of Religion' series, Russell Mc Cutcheon explores a 'baker's dozen' of such choices and the larger pedagogical problems with which they are entwined, ranging from classic questions of skill development and content coverage to philosophical concerns around students' identification with their topics of study and institutional concerns around governance and assessment. Aaron Hollander provides a brief introduction and four doctoral students at the University of Chicago Divinity School respond to Mc Cutcheon's essay, widening its scope, testing its applicability, and interrogating its undergirding suppositions from the perspective of early-career educators in the field.
- Subjects
INTRODUCTORY courses (Education); DECISION making; RELIGIOUS studies; THEOLOGICAL education; UNIVERSITY of Chicago; DOCTORAL students; HIGHER education
- Publication
Teaching Theology & Religion, 2016, Vol 19, Issue 1, p78
- ISSN
1368-4868
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/teth.12323