Five pedagogical strategies to address challenges in teaching “Women in Islam”
Gupta S.
2022
Intercultural Education
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10.1080/14675986.2022.2017622
This article is a reflection of the author’s experiences teaching a course titled ‘Women In Islam’ [WIS] in an English Department at a medium, public, Masters granting, Liberal Arts university in the Midwestern United States. This paper argues for the importance of teaching WIS through a multi-genre, interdisciplinary, and global approach. The article refers to the following five teaching strategies: Thinking through History, The Lived Realities Lens, The Multi-Genre Approach, Fiction through a Global Lens, and Using VALUE rubrics as an Evaluation Tool. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
literature; Teaching Islam; women
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