Description
Dr. Frances Garrett from the University of Toronto discusses how she designs courses in creative ways that focus on developing student skills as well as sharing Buddhist studies content. She develops creative courses for her students, leading them through experiences like an immersive year-long embodied role playing game, or a seminar where the students collaborate on writing and publishing an academic journal. As a self professed introvert for whom teaching has always been a struggle of a sort, Frances shares ways that she centers the mental health and needs of her undergraduate and graduate students, and creates a more compassionate University.
Quotes
"I think as a teacher you have to model appreciative criticism." Frances Garrett
"Students’ subjective experience can be a way into learning about interdependence." Frances Garrett
Links and References
Frances Garrett’s website and profile page
https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/frances-garrett
http://francesgarrett.chass.utoronto.ca
Antioch University’s study abroad program in Bodhgaya, India (See also episode with Kerry Brown)
https://www.carleton.edu/global-engagement/buddhist-studies-india/
David Germano and the Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library
http://www.thlib.org/about/wiki/thdl%20home%20overview.html
Barnard College, Reacting to the Past - Role-playing game for undergraduate students
https://reacting.barnard.edu
Todd Lewis, "Getting the Foundations Right when Teaching Asian Religions," Education about Asia, 2010
https://college.holycross.edu/faculty/tlewis/PDFs/teaching_about_asian_religions.pdf
Todd Lewis, "Representations of Buddhism in Undergraduate Teaching: The Centrality of Ritual and Story Narratives," Teaching Buddhism in the West Routledge 2002
https://college.holycross.edu/faculty/tlewis/PDFs/Representations_of_Buddhism_in_Undergraduate_Teaching.pdf
Matt King, Barbara Hazelton, Andrew Erlich, and Nicholas Field, "Narratives of Hospitality and Feeding in Tibetan Ritual," Journal of the American Academy of Religion - article co-written by grad students
https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article/81/2/491/805712
3 Domains of Learning in Bloom’s Taxonomy
https://thesecondprinciple.com/instructional-design/threedomainsoflearning/
Mushrooms for Enlightenment or Why Buddhism is Like Shrek: A Conversation about Teaching with Sangseraima Ujeed
Kate Hartmann: Online Teaching Beyond the Pandemic
José Cabezón: Teaching Tibetan Buddhism as Professor and Practitioner
Jan Willis: Stories from a Black, Baptist, and Buddhist Teacher
Todd Lewis: Social Context and the Power of Imagination
Susie Andrews: Building Others Up
Janet Gyatso, Posthumanism and Animal Ethics in Buddhist Studies
Marcus Evans, Teaching Hip Hop and Buddhist Studies
Rima Vesely-Flad, Learning about Black Buddhist Dharma Teachers and Healing Justice
Embodied Learning on Interdependence
Daigengna Duoer, Teaching a Zen Buddhism Course Online with Student Preferences in Mind
Kerry Brown, Teaching Asian Art as Storytelling
Luther Obrock, Constructing Buddhist Theories of the Body from Ancient Texts
Rongdao Lai, Living Religion in the Classroom: Teaching Chinese Buddhism
Ellen Katz, Embodied Experience: Living from the Heart
Norman Farb on Buddhism and Contemplative Science
Wen-shing Chou on Teaching Buddhist Art Using Museum and Gallery Collections
Abishek Amar on Negotiating the Layers: Material History in our Teaching
Natalie Avalos on Anti-Colonial Teaching and Buddhism
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