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Quiet Please: Making Space for Silence

Lynn Neal is Associate Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University I was sitting around the seminar table with eighteen students in a course on religion and popular culture. To get the discussion started, I asked them about the results...

Students Teaching each other through Partnership

Monica A. Coleman is Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology. Pedagogical Confession: I learn from lectures. I’m one of those people for whom the traditional academy was made. I listen to lectures...

On Not Lecturing

When I started teaching I relied, like many others, on the examples of my own teachers. When I was an undergraduate, the teachers who moved me most were never straight lecturers. So, I tried to adapt their styles. The more...

“You Are Fired:” Keeping Group Work Real in the Classroom

Antonios Finitsis, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, Pacific Lutheran University Recent literature on the educational profile of the iGeneration emphasizes their love for collaboration.[1] One could further argue that group projects make great assignments beyond the well-documented learning proclivities of...