Title

Formation in the Classroom

Authors

F. Glennon
D. JacobsenFollow
Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, Messiah UniversityFollow
J. J. Thatamanil
A. Porterfield
M. E. Moore

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Abstract

What is the relationship between the academic knowledge of the guild and the formation of students in the classroom? This Forum gathers four essays originally presented at a Special Topics Session at the 2009 conference of the American Academy of Religion (Atlanta, Georgia), with a brief introductory essay by Fred Glennon explaining the genesis of the panel. Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen clarify some of the issues at stake in undergraduate liberal arts classrooms by distinguishing between four dimensions of what they refer to as "the (in)formation teaching matrix: institutional context, course content, faculty roles, and student outcomes. John Thatamanil argues that all learning necessarily presupposes formation. Amanda Porterfield argues against using the word "formation" because it complicates and undermines her teaching goals to historicize religion and narratives about it through open-ended inquiry. And, finally, Mary Elizabeth Moore explores the interactive processes linking formation, information, reformation, and transformation. © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Comments

Originally published as:

Glennon, F., Jacobsen, D., Jacobsen, R. H., Thatamanil, J. J., Porterfield, A., & Moore, M. E. (2011). Formation in the classroom: Formation in the classroom. Teaching Theology & Religion, 14(4), 357–381. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9647.2011.00740.x

Recommended Citation

Glennon, F.; Jacobsen, D.; Jacobsen, Rhonda Hustedt; Thatamanil, J. J.; Porterfield, A.; and Moore, M. E., "Formation in the Classroom" (2011). Psychology Educator Scholarship. 9.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/psych_ed/9