Embracing Diverse Learners and Complex Classrooms: Aizaiah G. Yong

The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching

Rev. Dr. Aizaiah G. Yong is Assistant Professor of Spirituality at Claremont School of Theology.
What does it take to create a classroom experience where the relational ethos among diverse learners is that we belong to one another? Learner-centered pedagogies become especially complex when learners are from a wide range of backgrounds, theologies, communities, and also possess a wide variety of aspirations and intents. What does it mean to take seriously the ways diversity of learners challenges, enriches, and creates risk in a classroom? What if teaching in diversity means humility is a primary pedagogical practice? What is the finitude of our teaching and what are our personal limits while teaching in all-kinds diversity?