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Jill DeTemple

Dr. Jill DeTemple is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University. Her research interests include faith-based economic development, Latin American religions, Pentecostalism, and the use of dialogue in classrooms to promote intellectual humility, conviction, civic engagement, and learning. She is the author of Cement, Earthworms and Cheese Factories: Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador, and Making Market Women: Gender, Religion, and Work in Ecuador.

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Questions to Meet the Anxiety in the [Virtual] Room


Blog Series: Praxis: The Responsive & Expanding Classroom
April 21, 2020
Tags: student learning   |   teaching strategies   |   student anxiety   |   dialogic teaching

It isn’t over. “It,” of course, is the Covid-19 crisis that has moved students, faculty and staff off our physical campuses, moved learning to online platforms, and disrupted the normal rhythms of an academic year. What is certain right now is what is not happening: honors ceremonies, graduations, conferences ...

Conflict, Conversation, and Wobble in RS Classrooms (or the good things that can happen when cycling metaphors meet difficult conversations)


Blog Series: Teaching, Religion, Politics
December 29, 2016
Tags: classroom management   |   transformative teaching   |   discussion

I am a cyclist.  I ride a hybrid commuter bike to work most days and have a road bike that has taken me up mountain passes and on to country roads outside of Dallas where views of fields and livestock replace the asphalt jungles of the Metroplex.  I picked up ...

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