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This video and Web site resource for high school and college religion teachers demonstrate an approach to teaching religion that incorporates reading and discussing the daily news. Shot at Colgate University in 2003-2004, the video features classroom footage illustrating how two teachers conduct a course on religion using the news, specifically THE NEW YORK TIMES, as a text. The video also includes interviews with the teachers themselves, augmented by the course description, syllabus, and exam questions.
This course represents an innovative example of how to approach teaching about religion. It highlights both the newsworthiness of religion and the role that newspapers and the news in its many forms (print, television, radio, and other new media) can play in a classroom. Request a DVD.
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The following videos were shot on location at Colgate University in 2003-2004 during the course "Religion and the Quest for Meaning"...
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At Colgate, the section of the first-year course on "Religion and the Quest for Meaning" featured here is part of a linked pair of courses...
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Three professors around the country describe how they have used the news in their classrooms to teach about religion.
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Request a free DVD and guide that offers background and an overview of the project and introduces the online materials for USING THE NEWS TO TEACH RELIGION.
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This project is the result of a matching grant from the Lilly Endowment, the principal funder of the PBS program RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, to support an online project that would extend the reach of the show and highlight the special resources that the news can offer for teaching about world religions.
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