Faith, Difference, and Socially Just Public Pedagogies

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 8

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The existence of multiple faith commitments, and multiple (queer, radical) intersecting social movements complicate the secular and religious goals of schooling and teacher education transnationally. Faith difference can be constructively channeled towards public, creative engagement of secular and theological education principles for plural societies. However public discourses of faith are often drawn into or underpinned by classed, gendered and heteronormative processes of school and teacher education privatisation, and into the racialised surveilling of ‘suspect’ Muslim and minority ethnic communities. Drawing on empirical and philosophical research from the US, Australia, the UK and Ireland, we outline principles and practices, which creatively engage faith difference, and provide socially just ways of thinking about faith commitments for present and future public pedagogical purposes.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Differences and Intersectionalities

Chair

• Karl Kitching, University of Birmingham

Papers

• Material Ways of Understanding Faith, Difference, and Belonging in Children's Art - Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody, RMIT University

• Educating Tensions: On Religious and Sexuality Discourses - Kevin J Burke, University of Georgia - Athens; Adam Joseph Greteman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

• The Plural Child in Ireland's Secular and Religious Schools - Karl Kitching, University of Birmingham

Discussant

• Michael D. Waggoner, University of Northern Iowa