Article
Seeking A Pedagogy of Honesty
The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching
(2021)
Abstract
With multiple cultural, academic, and religious forces urging students and faculty to default to varying degrees of academic and personal dishonesty, we need to seriously consider how the structures we implement as educators can either reinforce or undermine those urges. After briefly considering some of the varieties of academic dishonesty we face in our religion and theology classrooms, this essay proposes one alternative model for a flow of communication that short-circuits usual expectations and encourages an ethos of honest participation. The proposed solution, called a Discussion Plan, represents an attempt to make the classroom’s center of gravity the honest questions, honest observations, honest confusions, honest exasperations that are uniquely relevant to the actual students of the particular class. This intentional dismantling of regimes of dishonesty with a pedagogy of honesty requires vulnerability and the hard work of active engagement but pays off with richer student participation and creativity.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring May 28, 2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.31046/wabashcenter.v2i2
Publisher Statement
Published by The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Citation Information
Paul Joseph Greene. "Seeking A Pedagogy of Honesty" The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching Vol. 2 Iss. 2 (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/paul-greene/2/
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