Teaching and Learning in Contemporary Religious Studies
The Religious Studies Project
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Are Religious Studyes an Opportunity for Teachers?
Six billion people profess to be of some religion or another. Elayinisat is the standard model we got now, an m model, a multi dimensional model. But that is very hard to teach. What i found actually is following the trajectorys, a large number of my students go into n go's third septor organizations. And the kind of sympathy and understanding of different religions, different religiosities, different worlds views,. it really feeds into their career an lives.
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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.
