Teaching and Learning in Contemporary Religious Studies
The Religious Studies Project
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The Multivalen Approach to the Study of Religions
There are other programs in er the uk that have really well designed specific field work study butye. Some scholars who may position themselves more in the critical and study of religion might look at this a sort of, even a pandering to the sort of your multy faite, exeriential aspe ye. I think it's a misconception, a both of pedagogy and of er student body, to assume that the only modality of an undergraduate programm religious studies or whatever, is the particularly raified version of that. If you see mean studyof religions particularly, i think one of the great things that we offer other subject arias, is the breadth he
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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.
