Theories and Practice in Critical Pedagogy

3 credits · Divinity School

This graduate level seminar explores critical, liberative and emancipatory pedagogies, and interrogates their applicability for teaching theological education and religious studies. Particular attention will be devoted to critical theories grounded in race, gender, and class analysis, as well as to the promise and problems posed by doing critical pedagogy on the margins of academe and religious life. This seminar will also survey inter/multi/disciplinary pedagogical approaches in order to demonstrate the manner in which subject matter impacts both knowledge production and concrete, everyday life experience. Finally, students will begin working on intellectual design and course development skills in an effort to articulate their own signature pedagogy. These expected outcomes will be realized through a variety of instructional strategies. Those strategies include, but are not limited to, the following: discussion, demonstration, inquiry and student led activities and facilitation. [3] Ms. Floyd-Thomas