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Games are Cool! Here’s Why: A Follow-up Conversation to Playing at the American Academy of Religion
Blog Series: Changing Scholarship
April 15, 2024
Tags: AAR | Gen Z | Changing Scholarship | Millennial
This blogpost is a conversation between Kimberly Diaz, University of California Riverside, Michael DeAnda, DePaul University, and Neomi DeAnda, University of Dayton. KIM: Neomi, how did the Loteria session at the AAR come to be? NEOMI: This year marked the twentieth anniversary of the first time I attended the American ...
ON SELF-CARE
Blog Series: Teaching Identity
April 03, 2024
Tags: self care | AAR | SBL | Together | BIPOC | Teaching Identity
The following is adapted from a talk given by Dr. Townes during the 2024 Wabash Center’s BIPOC Faculty Luncheon at the annual conference of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). Self-care is within the matrix of our total health; how we care for ...
The "I" That Teaches - Dr. David Blix - Part 1
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Tags: philosophy of teaching | teaching Islam | teaching as performance | teaching world religions | world religions | teaching Buddhism | lecture | classroom conversation | The "I" That Teaches | video | video series | Definition of Teaching | Islam | teaching as art | teaching studies | AAR | teaching as science | Abraham | Moses
“Teaching is an art and not a science,” states David Blix, Wabash College. It is about “interacting with students” in a “friendly manner” which is to say that teaching is about what he does in his everyday life. A deeply engaged student-centered teacher of religions of the world, Blix was a Carnegie Scholar at the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching in Palo Alto, California.
The “I” That Teaches - A new video project that invites senior scholars to talk about their teaching lives. These scholar-teachers candidly discuss how religious, educational, and family backgrounds inform their vocational commitments and, also, characterize their teaching persona. From the vantage point of a practiced teaching philosophy we get an intimate account of the value and art of teaching well.
Click here to watch all episodes of "The "I" That Teaches" on YouTube
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