Intersections Between White Evangelical Identity and Critically Oriented Pedagogies

• In Event: 25.069 - Religious Identity, Development, and Philosophy

Abstract

Broad-scale empirical data suggest that religious identity can only explain variations within our Nation’s political discourses when intersecting racial identities are also considered. Yet, rarely do studies engage in both dialogic approaches to religion and critical race inquiry. This study expands educational research on teacher identity by dialogically and critically analyzing a high school cultural literacy teacher’s racial, religious and professional identities in the context of an urban Catholic school. These findings, though locally situated, suggest that critically conscious researchers may do well to consider the role religious identity might play in cultivating criticality in educational research.

Author

• Christopher Alan Olshefski, University of Pittsburgh