Faith Honoring: Making the Case for Faith-Inclusive Pedagogy

This book calls on educators to teach the whole child by including their faith as integral to their identity and offers suggestions for how to honor faith within a nurturing learning environment. Part One describes the concept of faith honoring as an extension of historical educational approaches and offers a framework for how to teach in ways that are faith-honoring. Part Two is a collection of personal essays reflecting on experiences of faith honoring and faith silencing.

Jill L. Lindsey has been a tenured Professor and Department Chair at Wright State University; Director of Operations for the Ohio Education Research Center at Ohio State University; and Dean and Associate Provost at Shenandoah University. Jill has more than sixty publications related to education and leadership.

Douglas Stump, Ed.D. works at Southern Utah University as Director of Graduate Studies and teaches Educational Leadership. He has 18 years experience in Pk-12 schools as a teacher, Dean, and Head of School, mostly in faith-affiliated institutions.  He also has 14 years experience in higher education as an administrator and faculty.

Rehenuma Asmi, PhD, is an executive board member and instructor at the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World at Shenandoah University. Dr. Asmi received her bachelor’s from Georgetown University with double majors in Arabic and Government and completed her Masters in Teaching from American University and her PhD in Anthropology and Education from Columbia University Teachers College. In 2013–2017, she served as Assistant Professor of Religion and Education at Allegheny College. She currently lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three kids, a proud volunteer with the local PTA and Girl Scouts.

Erica Brown, PhD, is the Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and the Director of its Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership. She is the author of thirtееn books on spirituality, leadership, and the Hebrew Bible and a forthcoming commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes.

Amaarah DeCuir, EdD, is an educator, researcher, and inclusive pedagogy fellow. She is a faculty member at American University in the School of Education and an Executive Board member at the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World at Shenandoah University. Her scholarship spans the areas of antiracist pedagogy, Muslim student experiences, Prophetic pedagogy, faith erasure, equity, antiracism and social justice, education leadership, teacher education, and faculty development. Dr. DeCuir has published articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books, and her public scholarship appears in news and media outlets. A highly regarded educator and facilitator, Dr. DeCuir teaches Education Studies and Social Justice, Education Leadership, and teaches an Antiracist Research Methods course she co-designed. She brings over twеnty years of teaching and leadership experiences from public and private K-12 schools to inform her current work in higher education.