What We're Learning About Learning

Religious and Spiritual Diversity in the Classroom


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Call to mind an occasion when you felt out of your depth or unsure what to do in an encounter or engagement with religious or spiritual diversity inside or outside the classroom. What did you do in that situation? What do you wish you had done in that situation? We asked these same questions of three clergy from Georgetown University’s Campus Ministry. In CNDLS’ latest podcast episode of What We Are Learning About Learning, Rabbi Rachel Gartner, Imam Yahya Hendi, and Brahmachari Sharan talk about the good and bad experiences students regularly share with them, and how faculty can listen, reflect, and grow to better serve students.

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Interviewed for this episode:

  • Rabbi Rachel Gartner, most recent Director for Jewish Life
  • Imam Yahya Hendi, the Director for Muslim Life
  • Brahmachari Sharan, the Director for Dharmic Life and Hindu Spiritual Advisor for Campus Ministry
  • David Ebenbach, Professor of the Practice at CNDLS and the Center for Jewish Civilization
  • Resources
    Georgetown Resources

    Campus Ministry 

    Your Guide to Religious Services at Georgetown University

    Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS)

    Georgetown’s Student Outreach and Support (SOS Care Team)

    Georgetown’s Mission and Information about Cura Personalis

    The Doyle Engaging Difference Program

    The Prospect blog

    Additional Resources & Research

    ‘I think it, therefore it's true'’: Effects of Self-perceived Objectivity on Hiring Discrimination” (Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 9/7/07)

    To fight hate and stereotypes, students and parents turn to textbooks(The Washington Post, 6/15/19)

    No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education (Oxford Scholarship, 2012)

    Spiritual and Religious Diversity,” teaching tips from the University of Denver’s Teaching Center

    Religious Literacy,” (Inside Higher Ed, 8/24/20)

    Cuyjet, M. J., Howard-Hamilton, M. F., Cooper, D. L., & Linder, C. (Eds.). (2016). “Religious and Spiritual Diversity Among College Students” in Multiculturalism on campus : Theory, models, and practices for understanding diversity and creating inclusion. Stylus Publishing, LLC.

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