Adedamola Osinulu

My teaching is guided by the principle that creativity results from the ability to recognize connections between otherwise disparate phenomena and to synthesize new ideas from the resulting cognitive map. I therefore view helping my students to make these crucial connections as my primary pedagogical task, and I do so in three distinct ways. First, I help them bridge the temporal and geographic distance between our classroom and the spaces of the societies they study. Secondly, I connect my students with the ongoing debates in their areas of interest so that they can understand their role as intellectuals or professionals. Thirdly, I encourage my students to build bridges beyond their chosen disciplines in ways that enhance their ideas. I illustrate how scholarly works can be put into conversation with one another across fields to elucidate the same topic. I therefore encourage my students to facilitate interdisciplinary interactions in their own work.