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'The more there is to offend, the less there is to say'
Richard Benda, Anna Snape, Katja Stuerzenhofecker, Religions & Theology, University of Manchester
You can download Richard, Anna and Katja's PowerPoint presentation.
We would like to invite you into our classroom of 'Religion, Culture and Gender' to explore with us the challenges and opportunities of student-led discussions of controversial topics. What happens when undergraduate students are tasked to initiate and facilitate academic debate about atonement and abuse, ethics and embryo-freezing or homosexuality in the hierarchy? How do we support students to participate constructively within the uncertainties of a diverse classroom? How do we transform intellectual laziness and 'politeness' into critical engagement and passionate hope?
This workshop allows participants to explore these questions and more in the light of their own practice and our experience of success and failure. It aims to offer innovative ways of nurturing critical questioning and academic assertiveness in oral peer learning within PRS. The workshop allows participants to explore student responses to controversy from the tutor and student perspectives through individual and small group work, drawing, role play, discussion and reflection on the metaphor of 'courting'.
This page was originally on the website of The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies. It was transfered here following the closure of the Subject Centre at the end of 2011.
