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    A Pedagogy of the Soul

    Teaching College as a Spiritual Practice

    What if our teaching was our sacred mission, our soulwork, our spiritual practice? What would we do differently? What would change?

    Pierce Salguero April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 A Pedagogy of the Soul Read more

    A Pedagogy of the Soul

    Our students are living under an unimaginable burden of trauma. But, how much are we taking these factors into account in the classroom? And what would really showing up for our students demand from us?

    Pierce Salguero January 29, 2022January 30, 2022 A Pedagogy of the Soul Read more

    In defense of a little romanticism… or, how Mr Miyagi inspired me to become a professor

    We must make a fateful choice. Will we hide our hearts behind our lecture notes and bury our heads in our theoretical postulates? Or, will we risk helping our students get a little bit drunk on romantic talk of magic, wholeness, and transformation?

    Pierce Salguero January 1, 2022January 3, 2022 A Pedagogy of the Soul Read more

    Deconstruction is no longer enough… what else do we have in our toolbox?

    We need to make clear that humanistic scholarship has an entire toolkit that we can employ in the classroom for the benefit of the widest number of students. Some of those are critical tools, but there are also vital tools for empowerment, empathy, and meaning-making.

    Pierce Salguero May 19, 2019May 15, 2022 A Pedagogy of the Soul, Human•ities Read more

    The world outside our lecture hall is on fire… but what are we professors doing about it?

    Now, more than ever, how we approach our scholarship is inherently and inescapably a political matter. Shall we choose to bury our heads in the sand, or to use whatever platform we have to try to address the conflagration outside the window?

    Pierce Salguero May 6, 2019January 3, 2022 A Pedagogy of the Soul Read more

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