Engaged pedagogy through role-play in a Buddhist studies classroom

The article discusses two versions of a complex role-playing exercise in undergraduate courses on Buddhism. The pedagogical exercise demonstrated how imagination cultivated through creative writing could be used to enhance learning about history, culture, and religion. Students were also challenged...

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Auteur principal: Garrett, Frances Mary 1968- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
Dans: Teaching theology and religion
Année: 2018, Volume: 21, Numéro: 4, Pages: 336-344
RelBib Classification:AH Pédagogie religieuse
BL Bouddhisme
ZF Pédagogie
Sujets non-standardisés:B embodied learning
B Buddhist Studies
B engaged pedagogy
B role-playing
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Résumé:The article discusses two versions of a complex role-playing exercise in undergraduate courses on Buddhism. The pedagogical exercise demonstrated how imagination cultivated through creative writing could be used to enhance learning about history, culture, and religion. Students were also challenged to generate an understanding of religious practice that arose from both cognitive and sensory learning. The project showed that by interacting with a form of engaged pedagogy that worked with the imagination, without leaving the classroom students developed a deep care for and active engagement with communities located spatially and temporally far from home. With empathy and critical reflection, they came to see how religious meaning is constructed at a communal level through embodied action and emotional sensibility.
ISSN:1467-9647
Contient:Enthalten in: Teaching theology and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/teth.12462