Spirituality as a Humanizing Pedagogy of Practice and Praxis

• In Event: 41.078 - Spirituality and Education SIG Paper Session

Abstract

Spirituality, or what Dillard (2006) calls “spiritual strivings,” are deeply rooted in social and cultural traditions, and are often a source of power from which many find strength, hope, and clarity. In this paper, we explore how spirituality informs our work as teachers and scholars and how spirituality has become a humanizing pedagogy of our practice. Through narrative and auto-ethnographic methods, we explore various definitions of spirituality and examine how spirituality is manifested in our research and pedagogy.

Authors

• Christine Wanjiku Nganga, The George Washington University

• Joyanne Beverly De Four-Babb, University of Belize

• Makini Z. Beck, Rochester Institute of Technology