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Welcoming the Stranger
Author(s) -
Gallagher Eugene V.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9647.2007.00341.x
Subject(s) - ethos , hospitality , counterpoint , reflection (computer programming) , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics education , engineering ethics , psychology , political science , law , computer science , engineering , tourism , programming language
. Thinking about teaching as an act of intellectual hospitality has the potential to shape productively how teachers conceive of their own roles in the classroom, their interactions with students, and their execution of crucial tasks. It also offers a path to helpful reflection about a persistent issue that arises particularly for the many faculty members who teach in small departments of religion and are therefore called upon to address a wide range of topics in their teaching. In addition, adopting an ethos of hospitality in the classroom provides a salutary counterpoint to the pervasive and often corrosive academic practices of critique, refutation, and dispute.