Teaching and Learning in Contemporary Religious Studies
The Religious Studies Project
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Are You Working Within the Theology Departments?
The first module of the first course that i designed and taught was called an introduction to study of world religions, back in two thousand but even back then, i wantedto problematized this category. Both the philosophy and ethics perspective and the theological perspective tend to assume a normative, final truth. And most scholars of religion want to have the most accurate description, but they don't have this underlying, or overlying objective as a sort of final a challenge. I think, actually we need, we need to recognize how useful it was. The way tat we construct these categoriations moulds and shapes the phenomena that are out there. And the wold religions paradise. But am you
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Transcript
As we career forward into the twenty-first century, in a context where more and more students have access to higher education, where technology advances at an exponential rate, and where the logics of neoliberalism and management seemingly creep further into every aspect of everyday life, critical reflection about the role of academics in teaching has never been more necessary. In this our first podcast of 2016, Chris was joined by Dr Dominic Corrywright of Oxford Brookes University in the UK, to discuss current developments in higher education pedagogy, the challenges and opportunities that these present for Religious Studies, and some practical examples from Dominic’s own experience.
