Hospitality and Schools: Four Lenses
If we want to think about hospitality and schools, we might be tempted to go straight to questions of personal warmth. We […]
Author: David I. Smith
Teaching and Learning Civic Hospitality: Where Do We Start?
This essay first appeared in Christian Teachers Journal volume 31 issue 1 and is reproduced here by permission. In too many contexts […]
Hospitality
Like many of our most important words, “hospitality” can carry a range of meanings. In contrast to the slick imagery of the […]
Community, Communion, Classrooms
Missing Community Years ago, when I first began teaching at a Christian university, I asked a student at the start of a […]
Devices, Teachers, and Students: How Are Our Choices Shaped?
Talking about technology in schools seems to come with a built-in temptation toward arguing about big threats and promises. Digital devices will […]
Technology
Last fall I sat at the back of a classroom, one of many visited to monitor student interns, and watched a teacher […]
Teach FASTly: Faith and Science as a Pedagogical Challenge
We live in an age in which what we think we know from science is modified daily, theological stances on current issues […]
Resisting Homework as Solitary Confinement
This article appeared previously in the October 2014 issue of the Christian Teachers Journal (Australia). It is reprinted here with permission. Some […]