{"id":252,"date":"2010-07-08T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:09:48","slug":"praying-in-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/07\/08\/praying-in-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying in Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following case study<\/a> could accompany any readings or discussion on religion, culture or rights. \u00a0For example, it could be used with Jen’nan Ghazal’s “Muslims in America,” which is available through Contexts<\/em> online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lisa is a new professor at a large public university.\u00a0 Her class just finished a unit on gender, and her students are taking an essay test. Lisa sits near the front of the room and keeps a watchful eye over her students.\u00a0 The classroom is completely silent except for their pencils scribbling furiously.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, one of her students stands up and faces a corner.\u00a0 He starts to bow, and Lisa realizes that he is praying.\u00a0 Many of the students look up and start watching him instead of continuing their exam.\u00a0 Lisa can tell they are distracted, but she also believes that the student has religious freedom. Thus, she decides to pretend that nothing is happening.<\/p>\n

After class, a few students approach Lisa and complain about the student who was praying.\u00a0 They say that they were seriously distracted during the exam and would like 10 more minutes to work on it.<\/p>\n

Questions:<\/p>\n

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  1. What should Lisa do?<\/li>\n
  2. Did Lisa make the right choice to ignore the student instead of asking him to stop?<\/li>\n
  3. Should a student be allowed to observe her or his religious rituals during class?\u00a0\u00a0 Should this differ around the world? \u00a0By the type of school?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The following case study could accompany any readings or discussion on religion, culture or rights. \u00a0For example, it could be used with Jen’nan Ghazal’s “Muslims in America,” which is available through Contexts online. Lisa is a new professor at a large public university.\u00a0 Her class just finished a unit on gender, and her students are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,461,837,42],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-culture","tag-human-rights","tag-materials","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}