Date:
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Time:
09:15 AM - 03:00 PM
Teaching About Religion Using the Cultural Studies Method
Saturday 25 October 2008
Location: Harvard Center for Government and Int'l Studies South Building 050
9:15 AM – 3:00 PM
*Workshop Limited to 20 Participants*
Description: This workshop assists K-12 educators in teaching about religion and religions (Islam in particular) in the classroom through highlighting the problem of religious illiteracy and offering theoretical and practical ways it can be overcome. Discussion both with the presenters and among the educators will be an important part of the workshop. Participants will receive a copy of Professor Diane Moore’s book, Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Tayeb Salih's The Wedding of Zein and other Sudanese Stories (Heinemann, 1991).
There is a ten dollar workshop fee for registration.
For workshop registration and other inquiries,
email The Outreach Center at cmesoc@fas.harvard.edu.
Workshop Presenters:
Prof. Diane Moore, Professor of the Practice in Religious Studies and Education and Director of the Program in Religion and Secondary Education, Harvard Divinity School
Stephanie McAllister, Social Studies, Brookline High School and alumnus of the Program in Religion and Secondary Education at Harvard Divinity School
Jim Norton, English and Math, Newton North High School and alumnus of the Program in Religion and Secondary Education at Harvard Divinity School
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