The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching
Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD, is the podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, universities and seminaries. The podcast series features dialogues with faculty teaching in a wide range of institutional contexts. The conversations will illumine the teaching life.
Host: Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD
Producer: Rachel Mills
Sound Engineer: Paul O. Myhre, PhD & Paul Utterback
Podcast music by Dr. Paul O. Myhre, PhD
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 320
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 83 - The Letters Are Gold!: Rachelle Green
What does it mean to create virtual community…when you are new to teaching? Creating healthy intimacy and appropriate vulnerability in online courses takes planning. Give yourself permission to be sl…
Episode 82 - Better Understanding of the Changing Nature of Teaching: Frank Yamada
What could it mean to seize this moment as a time for creativity and opportunity to rethink teaching? In what ways can data driven decisions impact design of new educational paradigms? What are the n…
Episode 81 - Building Community Through Online Learning: Sarah Bogue
Kwok Pui Lan (Candler School of Theology at Emory University) and Tat-siong Benny Liew (Holy Cross College) interviewed Dr. Sarah Bogue of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University . They di…
Episode 80 - Challenges of Creating Community in Online Teaching: Kristina Reardon
Kwok Pui Lan (Candler School of Theology - Emory University) and Tat-siong Benny Liew (Holy Cross College) interviewed Dr. Kristina Reardon, Director of the Writer’s Workshop at the College of the Ho…
Episode 79 - Womanist Erotic Pedagogy: Courtney Bryant
What does it mean to teach for the honoring of body? Insights on approaches which disrupt “neck-up” teaching; encouragement toward classrooms for mutual experiences of one another. What if the schol…
Episode 77 - Politics of Translation: Jin Young Choi
What does it mean to teach students with unexamined biases against immigrant faculty?What happens to faculty when “fitting in” requires loss of cultural identity? In what ways can skills of translati…
Episode 76 - A Different Way: Brian Bantum
Teaching to help one another become ourselves requires a different model of education. Nurturing the curiosity of teacher and learner would need new forms and new functions. Daring to be creative m…
Episode 74 - Technology as Disciplinary Method: Gay L. Byron
Even for the seasoned scholar, understanding the digital mindset as well as navigating educational platforms is a necessity for effective teaching. Incorporating new collaborations and resources is …
Episode 73 - Privileging Blackness Among Predominantly White Students: Mitzi Smith & Dan Ulrich
The courses and conversations needed to teach away from white supremacy and toward equity, freedom and humility require new conversation partners, creating new kinds of courses, and bravery. Such a c…
Episode 72 - "Let America Be America Again": Nichole Phillips
Nurturing sensibilities and sensitivities for the pluralism of identities is a challenge to teaching and learning, alike. Teaching what you know is only the starting point.
Episode 71: Student Formation Grows out of Basic Commitments: Elizabeth Bounds
What does it mean to do race differently in classrooms? What risks can teachers take to better prepare learners for issues of injustice, oppression, and liberation? Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts D…
Episode 70 - Drawing Upon Pasts for Healthy Futures: Dwight Hopkins
In this time of crisis, intergenerational connections make a difference in teaching and in being taught. Healthy community requires interdependence one to another across the generations. Dr. Nancy Ly…
Episode 69 - Imagination is Dangerous!: Christine Hong
Getting through the pandemics will take all of us, plus the willingness to allow our imaginations to be chaotic and refuel the soul. Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Christine Hong (Columbia Theo…
Episode 68 - Teaching Religion: Carole Barnsley
What does it mean to shape our curriculum into a story our students can tell? What kind of pedagogical imagination is needed to shape old courses into new? In what ways might lightheartedness bring…
Episode 67 - Teacher as Translator: Sarah Farmer
Descriptions of mutuality between students and teacher; Suggestion that teaching is about translation – academy to town square, culture to culture, race to race. Teacher as translator requires coura…
Episode 65 - The "I" That Teaches: Eddie Glaude
His mother said that he was “born to push a pencil and run his mouth.” And what world-shaping-words have come from her son, Princeton University Professor Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.. “There’s a story of me…
Episode 64 - Daring to Leave Home While Teaching: Dan Ulrich
Becoming a learner once a seasoned scholar is a task fraught with discomfort, identity challenges, and the gaining of new confidences. Dan Ulrich (Bethany Theological Seminary) reflects upon a shared…
Episode 63 - Teaching As If Sacred Matters: Cheryl Kirk-Duggan
The multiple pandemics have caused a rethinking of community, connection, the sacredness of the body, and what it means to depend upon creation. Teaching cannot ignore the politics of relationship be…
Episode 62 - The "I" That Teaches: Eric Barreto
At the time of this conversation, Eric Barreto was on the faculty at Luther Seminary, but he has since joined the faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary. His teaching practice is informed by his b…
Episode 61 - The "I" That Teaches: Victor Anderson
This podcast is from “The “I” That Teaches” series - a video project that invites senior scholars to talk about their teaching lives. These scholar-teachers candidly discuss how religious, educationa…