Teaching and Restorative Hope: Sarah Farmer

04/16/24 • 16 min

The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching

Sarah Farmer is Associate Director of the Wabash Center.
A conversation on Dr. Farmer's latest book pointing toward the ways hope is life giving. Hope is not sanitized - not a luxury. Hope is about possibility, survival, creativity and resilience. Learning from and with incarcerated women is life changing.

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Classroom Dynamics: Emily O. Gravett

Emily O. Gravett is the Assistant Director of the Teaching Area in the Center for Faculty Innovation and Associate Professor of Religion at James Madison University.
The power dynamics of classrooms are as varied as the teachers and the learners. Building classroom communities means being attentive to and curious about students, while allowing students the space to be eager, afraid, anxious, disagreeable, and sometimes, tired. Approaching students as real, whole people, who themselves possess considerable classroom power, must be considered and critically reflected upon.

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Justice Agendas in Theological Education: Sarah F. Farmer

Sarah Farmer is Associate Director of the Wabash Center.
What happens when scholarship is the work of passion and social change? What happens when learning mobilizes persons for liberation? What if theological education focused upon who we are to become - what then, would that curriculum look like?