Episode 77 - Politics of Translation: Jin Young Choi
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 to teach students with unexamined biases against immigrant faculty?What happens to faculty when “fitting in” requires loss of cultural identity? In what ways can skills of translation assist with the wounds of assimilation? Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Jin Young Choi (Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School).