The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching
Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., is the monthly podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, universities and seminaries. The podcast series will feature dialogues with faculty teaching in a wide range of institutional contexts. The conversation will illumine the teaching life.Webinar Producer: Rachel Mills Sound Engineer: Dr. Paul O. Myhre Original Podcast music by Dr. Paul O. Myhre
The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching
Episode 172 - Motherhood and Teaching: Ekaterina Lomperis, Lakisha Lockhart, and Sarah Farmer
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Episode 172
So often scholarship is mired in a narrative of guilt for women who choose the mother. Too often mothering is thought to be a squandering of time for those pursuing tenure or promotion. What does it mean to intellectual communities if motherhood were to be embraced? How is the scholarship of teaching enriched by those who are mothering? What is the detriment of living in a bifurcated identity that silos mothering away from career and vocation? How does motherhood impact the twenty-first century identity politics of scholarship?