Full Description
Teachers' religious identities shape their classroom practices in varied ways. From the books they select to the relationships they build with students to the way they see their role as a teacher, teachers' religious identities shape their sense of what is possible and impossible within classroom settings. This book examines these complex navigations through portraits of three early-career evangelical Christian teachers as they explore the tension they feel between their teaching identities and their religious identities in the setting of the U.S. public education system.
What these portraits make clear is that the prevailing assumption that religious teachers have wholly separate teaching and religious identities is an impossibility, no matter how devoutly it might be wished for, legislated, and imagined. Who are these teachers? How does their evangelical religious identity influence the way they navigate classroom spaces? How are they making sense of their own experiences as a religious person in a public school classroom?
Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I: Framing the Portraits
1. Christian Teachers, Public Schools, and the Impossibility of Neutrality
2. In the Spirit of Inquiry: Ethics and Hospitality
3. In the Spirit of Inquiry: Portraiture
Part II: Individual Portraits
4. Portraits of Noelle: Balancing Acts
5. Portraits of Mei: Evangelism Everywhere
6. Portraits of Mallory: Individual Ministries
Part III: Group Portraits
7. Portraits of Focus Groups
8. Photobombing the Portraits: Analyzing the Portraits and the (In)Hospitality of Research
About the Author
Index
NOTE: Table of contents subject to change up until publication date.
