For the past eight years, I have regularly taught a large, survey course on global poverty and justice at Wheaton College. In the course we learn...
Tag: pedagogy
The Pedagogy of Improv
For Christmas 2021, my wife got me the gift of improv comedy classes. We happen to have an improv comedy theater right here in our little Chicago...
Engaging the Heart to Improve Learning: Love and the Pedagogy of Positive Emotion (Part 3)
Emotions are driven by perceptions which are in turn socially derived. Since we’ve established the need for a pedagogy that employs positive...
Guest Post – A Pedagogy of Vision: Ambrose of Milan and the Spiritual Senses
Jesus’ healing of the blind must rank amongst the more perplexing stories in the Bible. Jesus spits on the ground and makes a mud-saliva mix to rub...
Welcoming the Student Writer: Hospitable Christian Pedagogy for First-Year Writing
Responding to recent scholarship on writing pedagogy and hospitality, this essay offers a vision for a hospitable First-Year Writing (FYW) course...