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Metaphor for Teaching: Good Teaching is Like Good Sex
Author(s) -
Delgado Teresa
Publication year - 2015
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/teth.12287
Subject(s) - metaphor , creativity , psychology , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , flexibility (engineering) , context (archaeology) , pedagogy , style (visual arts) , learning environment , mathematics education , social psychology , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , statistics , mathematics , biology , history , archaeology
Based on a real teaching experience in the classroom, the author reflects on the dynamics of gender, race/ethnicity, power, and privilege in the context of an undergraduate course in C hristian sexual ethics. Through this analysis of pedagogical style and process initiated by a challenging moment at the midpoint of the semester, the author develops ten guiding principles for good teaching, using the metaphor that “good teaching is like good sex,” which emphasize the necessary elements and outcomes of a positive learning environment: intimacy, flexibility, creativity, satisfaction, care and attentiveness, vulnerability, fun and playfulness, reciprocity, full engagement, and risk‐taking. This experience provided the foundation for planning and assessment for the author's courses since.