The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching

The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
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The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching

Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., is the monthly podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, universities and seminaries. The podcast series will feature dialogues with faculty teaching in a wide range of institutional contexts. The conversation will illumine the teaching life.Webinar Producer: Rachel Mills Sound Engineer: Dr. Paul O. Myhre Original Podcast music by Dr. Paul O. Myhre

  1. 6 DAYS AGO

    Librarians are Partners in Teaching: Kelly Campbell

    Kelly Campbell is Associate Dean of Information Services and Senior Director of the John Bulow Campbell Library at Columbia Theological Seminary. A healthy ecology of teaching includes librarians and libraries. Libraries are magical nonjudgemental spaces. The responsibility of librarians for resourcing, teaching, and technology is invaluable and underacknowledged. The leadership role of librarians for needed shifts in educational systems is underestimated. Librarians must be at the...

    19 min

  2. NOV 7

    Teaching to Live - Almeda M. Wright

    Almeda M. Wright is Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on African American religion, adolescent spiritual development, and the interesections of religion and public life.We discuss Wrights' latest book entitled, Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist Educators and Radical Social Change. The book profiles eight distinguished African American teachers and the ways each made a unique contribution as social change agents through their teac...

    23 min
  3. Mindy McGarrah Sharp: Silhouette Interview

    OCT 31

    Mindy McGarrah Sharp: Silhouette Interview

    Mindy McGarrah Sharp is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care as well as Lead Faculty in the Master of Arts in Practical Theology Program at Columbia Theological School.

    30 min

  4. OCT 24

    Disappointed! in Scholarly Job: Willie James Jennings

    Willie James Jennings is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School. The disappointment is real! Early career colleagues report their disappointment after joining a faculty. Many excel during the doctoral program only to feel deflated, marginalized, or overlooked as a “junior” scholar. Many feel invisible, duped, or overworked on a faculty. How do you separate from the doctoral experience and step into your own voice as a teac...

    32 min

  5. OCT 17

    Anti-Racism As Daily Practice: Jennifer Harvey

    The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Harvey is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean at Garrett Evangelical Seminary.The New York Times bestselling author discusses why her scholarship of religion focuses upon issues of race and anti-racism. She suggests that the work of translation, interpretation and meaning making (good teaching and good faith) is critical in the work of reconciliation and belonging. Through the use of storytelling, and with suggestions of daily habits and pract...

    34 min

  6. OCT 3

    Administration - Not for Everyone: Willie James Jennings

    Willie James Jennings is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School. Administrative duties are a work of care for the thriving of all in the community. Being a good administrator requires the ability to think organizationally, and the willingness to prioritize nurturing faculty, students, and staff. Effective leaders are capable of visioning for the future of the institution. Good leaders have a heart for their people, even those pe...

    30 min

  7. AUG 1

    About Contract Faculty: Roger S. Nam

    Roger S. Nam is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Emory University Candler School of Theology. What are the constructive aspects of being contract faculty? If you spend your career as a contract faculty person have you failed as a scholar? How do you find your place on a faculty with tenure-track and tenured colleagues? What can administrators do to assist contract faculty in having longevity? For the good of the student experience, what ar...

    21 min

  8. JUL 25

    Unchanged Demographics of Faculty

    Dr. Steed Davidson is the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature.Data show that the kinds of persons we bring into doctoral programs and hire onto faculty remain relatively unchanged. In what ways can directors of graduate divisions of religion attend to atrophying doctoral programs? What is the future of religious scholarship if our formation pipelines are stagnant?

    29 min
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Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., is the monthly podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, universities and seminaries. The podcast series will feature dialogues with faculty teaching in a wide range of institutional contexts. The conversation will illumine the teaching life.Webinar Producer: Rachel Mills Sound Engineer: Dr. Paul O. Myhre Original Podcast music by Dr. Paul O. Myhre

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    The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    287
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