Episode 19 - Mustering Spirituality and Imagination: Willie Jennings and Amy Oden
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 is spiritual formation for teachers? Teaching during the chaos of the pandemic is soul work. It requires a soul pedagogy. This discussion provides insights into nurturing the spiritual awareness of teachers to better support and assist the learner. The conversation provides practices for the online classroom, encourages teachers to risk creativity and imagination, and suggests that formation or deformation of students is a matter of attentiveness, flexibility and freedom.