In my intimate circles, Oscar Sunday is a holy day of obligation. And, as with most holidays, the longer I keep it, the more ambivalently I feel about it. More >
Pedagogy
Blog posts in "Pedagogy"
I am less than a month away from finishing my first year as full-time faculty member. Even though I have been teaching in seminaries for the past five years as an adjunct and lecturer, stepping onto the tenure treadmill has raised new questions about scholarship and teaching for me. On most days, I have resisted the urge (or pressure) to use the tenure measuring stick to determine the value of my daily intellectual activities. More >
Society for Educating Women: Fifth International Conference 2012 theme is (Re)Voicing the Lexicon of Educating Women: On Contemporary Feminist Pedagogy. The conference will take place September 25 and 26, 2012 in St. Louis, MO. Submissions must be filed electronically on the Open Conference System (OCS) no later than April 15, 2012. For more details see: http://educatingwomen.net/conferences/index.php/sew2012/ More >
Writing for a blog is just like writing an article, a book, or a dissertation except that it isn’t. The act of putting words on a screen (we used to say putting words on paper) is the same, but there the similarities end.Blogging is a unique approach to communication for which graduate school skills can be detrimental. My attempts to blog have taught me a few things that I share with academics in the hope that some will try their own hands at this. It is nothing we trained for but something we can learn. More >
With some trepidation this semester, I created a public blog to be used for assignments in my seminary courses at Drew Theological School. Assigning blogging within the seminary context is still fairly rare. Even more so, is the use of a public blog site, shared between courses at different seminaries. Such pedagogy raises questions about whether one can require students to make their work public, whether everyone has the technology skills (or can be taught), and how on earth do we grade blogs? My answers to these questions are wha More >