Friends Association for Higher Education’s Quaker Leadings in Higher Education series presented:
Pedagogy that Reconnects:
Students and the more than human world
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
7-8:30 pm, eastern
To reconnect with the more than human world, we need to change our pedagogies. We need pedagogies that reconnect. Craig, Stephen, and Sara Jolena will each share a number of specific strategies and practices so you can walk away with both expanded understanding of what this entails and a greater awareness of tools and techniques of what is possible in your own teaching.
Panelists:
Craig Goodworth
Installation Artist and Poet
Stephen Potthoff
Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Peace Studies
Wilmington College
Sara Jolena Wolcott
Educator and Founding Director
Sequoia Samanvaya LLC
Moderator:
David R. Ross
Research Professor
Department of Economics
Bryn Mawr College
Craig Goodworth is an Oregon-based artist working in installation and poetry. His practice encompasses drawing, object-making, research, teaching and farm labor. He has received fellowships in art and writing including a Fulbright to the Slovak Republic (2015). Along with exhibiting his artworks nationally and internationally, he’s engaged in various collaborations and residencies relating art to science and religion. Goodworth holds Master’s Degrees in fine art and sustainable communities. Originally from Arizona, his interests include land, place, mysticism and folk traditions.
Stephen Potthoff teaches as a professor of religion, philosophy and peace studies at Wilmington College (Ohio USA). His academic background is in archaeology and the history of religion, and his principle research interests include indigenous religious traditions, ecospirituality, and the psychology of dream and visionary experience. As co-editor, along with Cherice Bock, of Quakers, Creation Care, and Sustainability, his publications also include The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage: Near-Death Experience, Ancestor Cult and the Archaeology of Paradise (Routledge 2016). A birthright Friend who grew up in New Garden Friends Meeting in Greensboro, NC, Stephen worships at the Wilmington College Campus Friends Meeting.
Sara Jolena Wolcott teaches at the independent international learning community she founded, Sequoia Samanvaya. Her work re-membering the origin stories of climate change into the histories of colonization developed while she was a student at Union Theological Seminary. She works with faith leaders, cultural change initiators, and others keen on the spiritual and cultural dimensions of creating a regenerative, just society. She holds a degree in Anthropology from Haverford College, and followed her leadings around the need for cultural change as part of responding to climate change into international sustainable development for nearly a decade prior to starting her own initiative. A birthright Friend who grew up in Strawberry Creek Monthly Meeting, in California, she sits on the board of Quaker Institute for the Future. She currently lives in the historic homeland of the Mohigan peoples, in the Hudson Valley.
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