5 Steps to Healing Polarization in the Classroom

by Amy Uelmen, Michael Kessler

Overview

This book is an invaluable manual for helping students become skilled professionals who know how to practice dialogue in their academic, economic, and personal lives.
This practical guide helps teachers and students to foster a learning environment where even the most difficult and divisive issues can be discussed. Examples incorporate the voices and experiences of students.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162074441
Publisher:	New City Press NY
Publication date:	05/24/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	382 KB

About the Author

Amy Uelmen is a Lecturer at Georgetown Law School and a Research Fellow with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. She teaches seminars that help students to explore how religious values and perspectives might intersect with professional identity, ethics, and theories of justice. From 2001 until July 2011 she served as the founding Director of the Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work at Fordham University School of Law. Throughout her career, she has been active with programs that aim to build bridges between people of different faiths. Her B.A. in American Studies, J.D. and S.J.D. are from Georgetown, and she hold an M.A. in Theology from Fordham.

Michael Kessler is managing director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, an associate professor of the practice of moral and political theory in the Department of Government, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law School. His research and writing focus on theology, philosophical and religious ethics, and social, political, and legal theory. Co-edited volumes include the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Political Theology. Kessler received his Ph.D. focusing on religion and moral and political theory from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His B.A. in theology and philosophy are from Valparaiso University.

Editorial Reviews

Given the turmoil on current college campuses, the classroom may seem an unlikely place for healing political polarization. Amy Uelmen and Michael Kessler clear away the sound bites and culture-war posturing to reveal the transformative potential of the mutual vulnerability that the best teaching brings forward. This book is not wishful academic thinking – it's a road map shaped by their real-world experience.

University of St. Thomas School of Law - Robert Vischer