Democracy Matters In Teaching
Welcome to the Wabash Center's blog series:
Democracy Matters In Teaching
Democracy, the principle of fair and equal treatment of everyone in a state, community, or institution, is the ultimate equity strategy. Democracy is complicated. In this time of competing agendas, crises, societal upheaval, and multiple pandemics, no singular idea of democracy can be taken for granted. The great experiment of democracy is, like liturgy, the “work of the people.” The Wabash Center is opening a discursive lane in our blogosphere for varied voices across the fields to consider the ramifications of democracy in our religion and theology classrooms.
In this new series (blog, vlog, artwork), we invite scholars to consider the role of religion in democracy and likewise, the role of democracy in teaching religion and theology.
- How do notions, practices, and rituals of democracy shape our pedagogies, teaching practices, and lives as teachers?
- What understandings of democracy do students bring into educational institutions, and how does that shape the work of teaching?
- What impact do these understandings of democracy have on student formation and the leadership students provide in their communities?
- What does it mean to teach democracy when democracy is a blatantly contested ideal in the wider society?
We invite bloggers and video-loggers across the fields of religion and theology, as well as interdisciplinarians, to engage the conversation on "Democracy Matters in Teaching."
Instructions for blog writers and vlog makers:
https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/blog/instructions-for-blog-writers/. The instructions are focused on written blogs, yet the same principles apply to vlog creation as well.
Honorarium: Writers will be provided with a $100 honorarium for each blog or vlog post that is published on the Wabash Center website.
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Democracy is the principle of governance marked by every person’s fair and equal treatment. In democratic societies, everyone has the same unfettered access to public goods and shares fairly in public life. Trust undergirds and upholds systems of democracy and these systems disintegrate when the people no longer trust. ...
Sharing Power in an Online Community Organizing Course
Blog Series: Democracy Matters In Teaching
March 23, 2021
Tags: online teaching | power | community organizing | consensus decision making
In 1887, British politician Lord Acton wrote the well-known phrase, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Not as well-known is the context in which Lord Acton penned these words. They were written to the Archbishop of the Church of England, Mandell Creighton, who decried what he saw as ...