The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching
Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD, is the podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, universities and seminaries. The podcast series features dialogues with faculty teaching in a wide range of institutional contexts. The conversations will illumine the teaching life.
Host: Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD
Producer: Rachel Mills
Sound Engineer: Paul O. Myhre, PhD & Paul Utterback
Podcast music by Dr. Paul O. Myhre, PhD
The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching
When Reverse-Mentoring Happens: Anne Wimberly
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Dr. Anne E. Streaty Wimberly is Professor Emerita of Christian Education at the Interdenominational Theological Center and Executive Director of the Youth Hope-Builders Academy, a youth theology program funded by the Lilly Endowment.
The relationship bonds between faculty and student can be long-lasting and mutually lifegiving. What happens when, in the season post-teaching, former students become the teacher's mentor, teacher, and guide? When reverse-mentoring provides a sense of kinship, in what ways does it mean when former students offer hospitality to their "forever" teachers?