Episode 175 - Family/Work Balance & Race Identity: Bryson White
Dialogue on Teaching, Wabash Center’s podcast series, is hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., Director of the Wabash Center. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcasts focus upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, university, seminaries, as well as the publics impacted by these schools. Dialogues with faculty and administrators working in the wide range of institutional contexts illumine the complexity of teaching and the teaching life.
What does it mean when the messiness of our humanness and family relationships is precisely what makes us better teachers? The courage to be vulnerable and act as a learner with our students can be inspired by our own parenthood. What does it take to navigate the racial dynamics of diverse classrooms? What practices of wholeness will sustain the dedicated minorized teacher over the long-haul of a teaching career? How does being aware of the identity politics of the USA make you, potentially, a better teacher?