Teaching and Learning in Contemporary Religious Studies
The Religious Studies Project
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The Standard Model of Religion
I was a secondary teacher for ten years, and i used to teach ares from year seven to nine. And that was the standard model of thog most of caurses. So students coming to study religions at universities had that implicit hierarchy in their minds. What is out there ugis much more loose and diverse and creative and multiple.
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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.
