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Dear colleagues,

 

I am pleased to announce details for the forthcoming SocRel Response Day, Teaching Religion on 20^th March at the University of Nottingham with guest speaker, Dr Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester). Please see below for further details and follow this link for more information, abstract submission and event registration.  https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/bsa-socrel-chair-s-response-day-teaching-religion/

 

Should you have any questions or queries, then please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Best wishes,

Rachael

 

Dr Rachael Shillitoe

Research Fellow

Conference and Events Officer for the British Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion Group (SocRel)

School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion

University of Birmingham

Edgbaston, Birmingham

B15 2TT

 

Latest article: Strhan, A. and Shillitoe, R. (2019) The Stickiness of Non-religion? Intergenerational Transmission and the Formation of Non-Religious Identities in Childhood. Sociology 53 (6), pp.1094-1110, article here

 

 

 

 

BSA Socrel Chair’s Response Day: Teaching Religion

20 March 2020 (10am–4pm)

University of Nottingham, UK

Speaker: Dr Dawn Llewellyn, University of Chester

 

About the Event

This one-day event will gather new ideas, experiences and critiques of the current state of the teaching of religion in the UK and internationally. We will focus primarily on the challenge of teaching the sociological study of religion to undergraduate and graduate students, but we welcome teachers working in any discipline that shares an interest in religion-related topics. Teachers working outside university contexts are also welcome, from those working on knowledge exchange and public education projects to religious educators working in schools.

 

Possible topics for discussion include (but are not limited to):

•          Radical teaching for the study of religion.

•          Decolonizing the religious studies curriculum.

•          Teaching beyond World Religions.

•          Teaching on strike: teach-outs, picket lines and student responses.

•          Supporting students from diverse backgrounds in the classroom.

•          Positive and negative student experiences of religion on campus.

•          Building a learning community in a TRS department.

•          Students as researchers and teachers.

•          Teaching outside the university.

•          Key factors influencing the status of the sociology of religion within the university.

•          Distance, online and blended learning in the study of religion.

•          Teaching digital skills, using digital resources and employing digital technologies.

•          Training students for the future workplace.

 

We will also offer time to workshop module ideas, classroom challenges and plans for new activities in small group conversations.

 

We welcome all papers that enable scholarly reflection on the future shape of pedagogy. Each paper should last 20 minutes, and an additional 10 minutes will be allotted for questions. Proposals for alternative styles of presentation are encouraged. Abstracts should be up to 300 words long.  Submission deadline:  24 February 2020.

 

Key Dates

•          Abstract submission deadline: 24 February 2020

•          Notification of abstract: 27 February 2020

•          Registration deadline: 13 March 2020