Dr. Jill DeTemple shares insights from her experience helping students learn to have hard discussions while keeping their curiosity and respect for one another. She draws on the work of Essential Partners, https://whatisessential.org/about-us, to create positive conversations about religion. She has discovered that students can both more easily learn, and learn about each other.
Dr. Jill DeTemple is Chair of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, and, by courtesy, Professor of Anthropology. Her research focuses on religiously sponsored development in Latin America and on the uses of dialogue for teaching in higher education. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a book that examines the risks of social capital approaches to development, especially when they are based in religious and gendered identities, due to release with the University of Notre Dame Press in March, 2020. The second is an edited volume that introduces Reflective Structured Dialogue and attendant approaches to dialogic classrooms in postsecondary contexts.