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Teaching Native American Religions for Social Justice and Civic Engagement
Proposal abstract :
This project will convene six early-career scholar-teachers from different geographical locations and types of institutions who teach courses on Native American religions to workshop syllabi and brainstorm assignments that would benefit Indigenous communities local to each of our institutions. The outcome will be a collection of publicly available syllabi for teaching Native American religions for social justice, a collaborative publication on pedagogy that challenges faculty to rethink how Native American religions are taught, and more institutional engagement with local Native communities, first at the institutions where participants teach, and then, after dissemination of materials, at other colleges and universities. The pedagogical question driving this project is how faculty teaching courses on Native American religions can develop courses that deepen student learning through direct engagement with local Indigenous communities.
This project will convene six early-career scholar-teachers from different geographical locations and types of institutions who teach courses on Native American religions to workshop syllabi and brainstorm assignments that would benefit Indigenous communities local to each of our institutions. The outcome will be a collection of publicly available syllabi for teaching Native American religions for social justice, a collaborative publication on pedagogy that challenges faculty to rethink how Native American religions are taught, and more institutional engagement with local Native communities, first at the institutions where participants teach, and then, after dissemination of materials, at other colleges and universities. The pedagogical question driving this project is how faculty teaching courses on Native American religions can develop courses that deepen student learning through direct engagement with local Indigenous communities.