Category Archives: Pedagogy

Educating Women: A Conference on the Education of Girls and Women for Professors, Students, Teachers, Activists, Researchers and Concerned Citizens

Blog CFP, Pedagogy April 2, 2012

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: […]

Are Colleges and Universities “Indoctrination Mills”?Santorum Has a Lot to Learn from My Undergraduate Students

Nami Kim Archives, Pedagogy March 14, 2012

In his recent interview with conservative television host Glenn Beck, Rick Santorum, a GOP presidential hopeful, referred to U.S. colleges and universities as “indoctrination mills.” “The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country,” he said. According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, “indoctrinate” means “fill the mind […]

O Women, Where Art Thou?: The Bechdel Test Applies to the Oscars, Religious Debates, even the Bible

Joseph Marchal Current Events, Pedagogy, The Arts February 27, 2012

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. There are a host of issues around these films and the industry that generates them, not the least being the way Hollywood reflects and, worse, constructs […]

Feminist Studies in Religion as Bread and Butter

Mary E. Hunt Archives, Living It Out, Pedagogy February 13, 2012

Feminist studies in religion are a hot commodity in the current political turmoil. So-called women’s issues are front and center in the debates. The long settled question of contraception has been snatched from mothballs for conservatives’ purposes. But there is such a dearth of feminist religious voices, so little room in masculinist journalist and clerical […]

Like Falling Off a Blog

Mary E. Hunt Living It Out, Pedagogy November 12, 2011

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 […]

Pedagogy of Blogging

Kate Ott Archives, Pedagogy November 11, 2011

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 […]

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