Open Access“Keepin’ it Real”—When Scholarship Meets the Political
Author(s) -
Diane Shane Fruchtman,
Shanell T. Smith
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the wabash center journal on teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2689-9132
DOI - 10.31046/wabashcenter.v1i3.1904
Subject(s) - scholarship , conversation , openness to experience , class (philosophy) , politics , vulnerability (computing) , sociology , public relations , media studies , political science , epistemology , computer science , psychology , social psychology , law , philosophy , computer security , communication
In this conversation, the Reverend Dr. Shanell Smith shares her strategies for incorporating politics into the classroom via an explicitly politicizing technique, “Keepin’ it Real.” She discusses the process of considering what to include and how to include it (and why we must!), and offers a window into how it might look in the classroom, using examples from a class on Mary that she teaches in an online seminary setting. Smith emphasizes the importance of modeling personalized scholarly inquiry for our students, including and especially the openness and vulnerability that make our scholarship matter both to us and to the world we share.