Conversation: Student self-authorship and the goals of higher education
Fisher K.; Newton R.; McClymond K.
2019
Teaching Theology and Religion
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10.1111/teth.12482
This edited transcript of a roundtable “fishbowl” conversation at a session of the 2018 national conference of the American Academy of Religion brings three teaching scholars together around a shared reading of Jane Fried's book, Education, Fishbowls, and Rabbit Holes: Rethinking Teaching and Liberal Education for an Interconnected World (Stylus, 2016). Fried's concept of student “self-authorship” quickly emerges as the dominant theme of the conversation, providing fresh perspectives on the purposes and goals of an academic classroom and the place of the study of religion within the liberal arts curriculum. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
academic conversation; authority; contentious conversation; goals of liberal arts education; individual and community; self-authorship; transformational learning
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