Episode 67 - Teacher as Translator: Sarah Farmer
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.
Descriptions of mutuality between students and teacher; Suggestion that teaching is about translation – academy to town square, culture to culture, race to race. Teacher as translator requires courage and a blending of worlds. Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Sarah Farmer (Indiana Wesleyan University).