20 March 2020 (10am–4pm)
Teaching and Learning Building, Room E06 at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD.
Abstracts should be up to 300 words long. Submission deadline: 24 February 2020.
Speaker: Dr Dawn Llewellyn, University of Chester
Dr Llewellyn is Senior Lecturer in Christian Studies at the University of Chester and author of Reading, Feminism, and Spirituality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). She is a longtime member of Socrel and the current holder of the Teaching and Learning Fellowship awarded by the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). Her presentation will take the form of an interactive workshop, designed as an opportunity to share good practice around building learning communities in the study of religion.
About the Event
This one-day event will gather new ideas, experiences and critiques of the current state of the teaching of religion in the UK and internationally. We will focus primarily on the challenge of teaching the sociological study of religion to undergraduate and graduate students, but we welcome teachers working in any discipline that shares an interest in religion-related topics. Teachers working outside university contexts are also welcome, from those working on knowledge exchange and public education projects to religious educators working in schools.
Possible topics for discussion include (but are not limited to):
- Radical teaching for the study of religion.
- Decolonizing the religious studies curriculum.
- Teaching beyond World Religions.
- Teaching on strike: teach-outs, picket lines and student responses.
- Supporting students from diverse backgrounds in the classroom.
- Positive and negative student experiences of religion on campus.
- Building a learning community in a TRS department.
- Students as researchers and teachers.
- Teaching outside the university.
- Key factors influencing the status of the sociology of religion within the university.
- Distance, online and blended learning in the study of religion.
- Teaching digital skills, using digital resources and employing digital technologies.
- Training students for the future workplace.
We will also offer time to workshop module ideas, classroom challenges and plans for new activities in small group conversations.
We welcome all papers that enable scholarly reflection on the future shape of pedagogy. Each paper should last 20 minutes, and an additional 10 minutes will be allotted for questions. Proposals for alternative styles of presentation are encouraged.
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Registration
Bookings are now OPEN.
| BSA Member | £36 |
| SocRel Member | £41 |
| Non-Member | £46 |
| BSA Concessionary Member | £15 |
| SocRel Concessionary Member | £20 |
| Full-time Student Non-member | £25 |