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2009-2010 Colloquy on:
Writing the Scholarship of Teaching in Theology and Religion

This colloquy is already enrolled.

Dates:
First Session: September 25-28, 2009 - Wabash College
Second Session: March 5-7, 2010 – Wabash College

Leadership Team:
Patricia O'Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University
Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College
Thomas Pearson, Wabash Center Facilitator

Description:
The Wabash Center is sponsoring a colloquy on the scholarship of teaching and learning to cultivate this scholarship among teachers of religion and theology in colleges, universities, seminaries and divinity schools. The colloquy will gather a small group of experienced and critically reflective teachers for a year-long process of writing and conversation about writing the scholarship of teaching and learning. The colloquy involves two weekends and assignments between the sessions.

Participants will work on their own article length manuscript through the course of the colloquy year, engage in peer review, and converse about writing this genre. The colloquy is designed with the intention that each participant will produce a publishable essay in the scholarship of teaching and learning in theology and religion.

Goals:

Provide a supportive context within which participants develop and produce publishable work in the scholarship of teaching in theology and religion
Facilitate reflection on writing the scholarship of teaching and learning in theology and religion that helps to articulate general characteristics of quality and to refine forms of the genre.
Identify strategies that will support the production of high quality scholarship of teaching and learning.
Increase the number of persons in the field who are conversant with the scholarship of teaching and learning in theology and religion as well as the broader scholarship on teaching and learning.

Participants and Writing Projects:

Michel Andraos, Catholic Theological Union
Engaging Diversity in Teaching Religion

Alicia Batten, University of Sudbury
… on teaching biblical studies and early Christianity to undergraduates in two different contexts

Kathryn Blanchard, Alma College
Team-Teaching Religion Across Disciplinary Lines

Ann Burlein, Hofstra University
… on the changing role of religious studies in the undergraduate curriculum

Daniel Deffenbaugh, Hastings College
Effective Meaning-Making in the Religion Classroom

Carol Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University
Storying as Teaching Practice: An African Diasporan Approach to Talk in Teaching Religious Studies

Rolf Jacobson, Luther Seminary
… on improving student writing and the value of term papers

Davina Lopez, Eckerd College
… on mapping the assumptions, perceptions and (mis)understandings of religious studies among Eckerd faculty (or else: . . . on re-imagining the teaching of undergraduate biblical studies to place students’ developing capacity for reading, writing and critical thinking with and of religion at the center of the enterprise)

Todd Penner, Austin College
Teaching Religion as Resistance: Transgressive Pedagogies, Student Empowerment, and the Politics of Exile

Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College
… on the intersections of the scholarship on human rights and human rights education, and how the educational practices of grassroots activist communities can inform the religious studies classroom

Robert Royalty, Wabash College
Student Research as a Transformative Pedagogy

Lynne Westfield, Drew Theological School
Practices of Wholly Teaching/Holy Teaching for the Classroom Setting

Stipend
Participants will receive a stipend of $1500 for full participation in both sessions, plus local expenses and travel.

Participants will receive an additional stipend of $500 for submission of an article manuscript on teaching to either Teaching Theology and Religion or some other appropriate academic journal, by January 1, 2011.

Please Note U.S. Law prohibits the Wabash Center from paying stipends to participants with certain classes of foreign national status. The Wabash Center is, however, able to reimburse ALL participants for travel and other expenses.

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Immigration status has no bearing on the Wabash Center’s selection of participants. It impacts only our ability to pay these participants a stipend.

We deeply regret these restrictions but are confident that participants who are not eligible for a stipend will nonetheless find our programs valuable even without a stipend.

Eligibility

• Teaching in a tenure-stream or other continuing position in an accredited seminary or theological school in the United States or Canada, or in an undergraduate theology, religious studies or religion department or program in an accredited college or university in the United States or Canada

• Ph.D/Th/D. in hand at the time of application

• Commitment to full participation, from the beginning to ending date and time for the two workshop sessions

Read our Policy on Full Participation (click here)

Questions? Please Contact:
Thomas Pearson
Associate Director, Wabash Center
Associate and Managing Editor, Teaching Theology and Religion
301 West Wabash Ave.
Crawfordsville, IN 47933
800-655-7117
pearsont@wabash.edu

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