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26.034 - Intersections of Faith in Education: The Often Silenced Connections of Faith, Education, and Global Religions

Fri, April 17, 8:15 to 9:45am, Marriott, Floor: Sixth Level, Lincolnshire

Session Type: Symposium

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For many educators, the role of faith and membership in faith communities remains uncomfortable or even taboo. This reluctance to speak to the ways membership in faith communities and spiritual belief systems plays into our professional practices as educators may serve to create a denial or silencing of key elements of individual identities, reifying marginalizing conditions. As such, this symposium gives voice to multiple perspectives related to the roles of faith in educational settings and practices. Drawing from perspectives informed by Islam, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Catholicism, the Baptist faith, and non-belief, the authors of the papers work to reconceptualize diversity by resituating it in the global context of faith within our professional practices as educators.

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