I have a longstanding interest in the development of responsible and culturally responsive pedagogy for teaching about religious identity. I was fortunate enough to receive a Tang Fellowship at Phillips Academy from 2018 to 2020, which provided me with an opportunity and resources to collaborate with the Religious Literacy Project at the Harvard Divinity School, where I was also an Education Fellow during the 2019-20 academic year.
The driving impetus behind this work is to equip and train educators in a critical/cultural studies approach to teaching about religion as an alternative to the world religions model. Whereas the latter presents religious identity as something that is inert, static, and fixed, the former invites us to consider the myriad ways in which religious identity intersects with other facets of human identity in specific cultural and historical contexts. "Religious Literacy in Secondary School Education," October 30, 2019 "Partnership with the Tang Institute: Four Views," October 9, 2019 |