Reimagining Christian Education: Cultivating Transformative Approaches

Book Overview

1 Calling teachers: "To shine like the stars of heaven".- 2 Modelling our teaching on the Jesus of the Gospels.- 3 Wide-awakeness in the world: Reimagining Bible engagement in Christian education with teenagers in light of Maxine Greene's aesthetic pedagogy.- 4 Reimagining reflective practice as life-long learning for professional development within Christian ministry.- 5 Narrative as a fundamental container for 21st century spirituality.- 6 Towards a model for inclusive education in Christian higher educational institutions: A prototype program.- 7 Inclusion in education: "A piggy back will (not) do?".- 8 You're welcome: Hospitality encounters in teaching.- 9 Teaching history for a moral purpose: Wilberforce as evangelical hero.- 10 Songs of orientation: Cultural liturgies, the history classroom and the 'winter Christian' of discontent.- 11 Transformative learning: Insights from first year students' experience.- 12 Teaching counselling from a Christian world-view: Why and how do we do this?.- 13 Hope, faith and love: Engaging the heart in the world of business.- 14 Business, education, research and theology.- 15 Education as the aspirational sine qua non for human flourishing: Case study from Bangladesh.- 16 Education: Success factor for poverty reduction, environmental justice and intergenerational equity.- 17 Investing in Australian youth: A community organisation that makes a difference.- 18 Teaching as relationship.- 19 For the love of what? Implications of utility driven education in Christian schooling.- 20 Reimagining Christian formation in online theological education.- 21 Higher education: What's love got to do with it? Longings, desires and human flourishing.- 22 The trinity, love and higher education: Recovering communities of enchanted learning.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811308500
• ISBN13: 9789811308505
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"