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Teaching and Christian practices : reshaping faith and learning
Title:
Teaching and Christian practices : reshaping faith and learning
Summary:
This book is about combining Christian religious practice with Christian pedagogy in order to ensure a more well-rounded theologically and life-based education and formation for students. Over the past twenty years there has been a ferment of reflection on the integration of faith and learning -- yet relatively little notice has been paid to the integration of faith and teaching in the Christian university. In "Teaching and Christian Practices" twelve university professors describe and reflect on their efforts to allow historic Christian practices to reshape and redirect their pedagogical strategies. Whether using spiritually formative reading to enhance a literature course, table fellowship to reinforce concepts in a pre-nursing nutrition course, or Christian hermeneutics to interpret data in an economics course, the authors present a practice of teaching and learning rooted in the rich tradition of Christian practices -- one that reconceives classrooms and laboratories as vital arenas for faith and spiritual growth.
Year Published:
2011
Physical Description:
225 p. : ill.
ISBN:
9780802866851
Publisher:
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011.