Dr. Sarah Richardson: How the ORID method supports critical thinking and inclusion

Описание: Sarah Aoife Richardson is a historian of the arts and religions of South Asia with a specialization in Buddhist visual and material practice, especially Himalayan painting. Sarah holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (2016), and is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the History of Religions for the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She also works with Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto as the Director of Partnerships and Engagement and helps to develop research and teaching support in Buddhist studies at the University and beyond. She especially enjoys teaching and learning about the ways that the arts are used in religious contexts, and how the arts move people and build communities. She loves teaching, and is also passionate about finding ways to help students experience the arts more richly in her courses. In 2020 she was awarded the UTM Teaching Excellence Award for Sessional Instructors.

Sarah is working on a book length study about Visual Words in Tibetan Architecture, which is an in-depth study of the rich program of inscribed murals at an important fourteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist monastery called Shalu (Zhwa lu). Mural paintings, Sarah argues, were then (and are still) useful in larger cultural projects of Tibetan Buddhist knowledge production and social communication. She also extends her scholarly practice to the museum, and has researched for years the largely unpublished Tibetan paintings collection at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto (ROM), where she is also working to bring forward an upcoming exhibition focused on how Buddhist religious art constructs and represents vision exchange.

Sarah is also the host of The Circled Square: Buddhist Studies in Higher Education podcast (learn more at http://teachingbuddhism.net/)

This video is part of the project, Windvane: Paths to Wellbeing. Aimed primarily at students in higher education, Windvane offers paths for exploring how we can connect with our natural elements and energies, harmonizing and localizing them as strengths. The guide includes engaged exercises for self-assessing and promoting wellbeing and flourishing.

Windvane is created by Dr Frances Garrett of the University of Toronto with funding from eCampusOntario.

This video was recorded on the east side of Toronto. The city of Toronto is located in the Dish With One Spoon Territory. The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and Peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect. We wish to acknowledge our privilege in being able to develop this project here.

Director: Frances Garrett
Producers: Frances Garrett and Bill Pocock
Executive Producer: Frances Garrett
Director of Photography: Bill Pocock
Editor: Frances Garrett
Camera Operator: Frances Garrett
Post-production Sound: Jesse Whitty
Visual Effects: Stephen Curran
Transcripts: Sam Keravica