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Sabbath as a Spiritual Imperative for Liberatory Teaching
Proposal abstract :
Scholarship has accounted for the mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion due to the stress of teaching, particularly for people of color whose efforts often involve cultivating racial equity and uprooting oppressive structures. It has exposed the culture of academia that thrives off of exhaustion, overworking, and unhealthy boundaries. Yet, scholarship has yet to fully consider the spiritual implications. Indeed, in academia the interior worlds and spiritual lives of teachers do not get taken seriously and are often relegated to the private sphere or deemed wholly inappropriate for consideration in the classroom space. Yet, this project moves spirituality from the margin to the center of liberatory praxis. The goal of this grant project is to intentionally examine and reclaim the practice of sabbath as a spiritual imperative for liberatory teaching. I will explore the framing question: How does the intentional centering of sabbath as a spiritual practice influence my pedagogy?
Scholarship has accounted for the mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion due to the stress of teaching, particularly for people of color whose efforts often involve cultivating racial equity and uprooting oppressive structures. It has exposed the culture of academia that thrives off of exhaustion, overworking, and unhealthy boundaries. Yet, scholarship has yet to fully consider the spiritual implications. Indeed, in academia the interior worlds and spiritual lives of teachers do not get taken seriously and are often relegated to the private sphere or deemed wholly inappropriate for consideration in the classroom space. Yet, this project moves spirituality from the margin to the center of liberatory praxis. The goal of this grant project is to intentionally examine and reclaim the practice of sabbath as a spiritual imperative for liberatory teaching. I will explore the framing question: How does the intentional centering of sabbath as a spiritual practice influence my pedagogy?