Open Minds Devoted Hearts

Author : Sarah Tauber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498218768
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Minds, Devoted Hearts written by Sarah Tauber and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do religious educators meaningfully engage adult learners? How do they invite adults to begin a learning journey and inspire them to stay on it? In an era of "spiritual but not religious," how can religious educators, and clergy in particular, respond to the yearnings of adults for connection, wholeness, and purpose? Open Minds, Devoted Hearts offers the examples of three outstanding congregational rabbis whose teaching answers that call to action. Through innovatively incorporating biographical portraits and educational scholarship the book provides a comprehensive exploration of how the themes of narrative, transformation, and spirituality bring adult religious educators and learners into a powerful interactive educational process. The portraits and accompanying analysis reveal how constructing personal meaning and building sacred community through study situates adult learning as a dynamic centerpiece of an energized congregational life.

Author : Sarah Tauber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498218776
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Minds, Devoted Hearts written by Sarah Tauber and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do religious educators meaningfully engage adult learners? How do they invite adults to begin a learning journey and inspire them to stay on it? In an era of "spiritual but not religious," how can religious educators, and clergy in particular, respond to the yearnings of adults for connection, wholeness, and purpose? Open Minds, Devoted Hearts offers the examples of three outstanding congregational rabbis whose teaching answers that call to action. Through innovatively incorporating biographical portraits and educational scholarship the book provides a comprehensive exploration of how the themes of narrative, transformation, and spirituality bring adult religious educators and learners into a powerful interactive educational process. The portraits and accompanying analysis reveal how constructing personal meaning and building sacred community through study situates adult learning as a dynamic centerpiece of an energized congregational life.

Author : James Michael Nagle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725255790
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out on Waters written by James Michael Nagle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a denomination like Roman Catholicism that is canonically difficult to leave, many American Catholics are migrating beyond the institution’s immediate influence. The new religious patterns associated with this experience represent a somewhat cohesive movement influencing not just Catholicism, but the whole of North American religion. Careful examination of the lives of disaffiliating young adults reveals that their religious lives are complicated. For example, the assumption that leaving conventional religious communities necessarily results in a non-religious identity is simplistic and even, perhaps, misleading. Many maintain a religious worldview and practice. This book explores one “place” where the religiously-affiliated and religiously-disaffiliating regularly meet—Catholic secondary schools—and something interesting is happening. Through a series of ethnographic portraits of Catholic religious educators and their disaffiliating former students, the book explores the experience of disaffiliation and makes its complexity more comprehensible in order to advance the discourse of fields interested in this significant movement in religious history and practice.

Author : Courtney T. Goto
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498233007
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grace of Playing written by Courtney T. Goto and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believers and teachers of faith regularly know the in-breaking of God's Spirit in their midst, when revelatory experiencing unexpectedly shifts habits of thinking, feeling, and doing toward more life-giving ways of being and becoming. When the moment is right, Spirit breathes new life into dry bones. Though religious educators have much practical wisdom about facilitating learning that is creative and transformative, sharper concepts, cases, and theory can help them do it more critically and assist learners to practice openness to wonder, surprise, and authenticity. The Grace of Playing explains how we can create the conditions for revelatory experiencing by understanding it in light of playing. The notion of playing "as if" can be powerfully reclaimed from ecclesial ambivalence, casual speech, and commercial interests that often lead playing to be associated with childishness, frivolity, or entertainment. This book theorizes adults playing for the sake of faith, drawing on D. W. Winnicott's psychoanalytic theory, a revision of Jurgen Moltmann's theology of play, biblical texts, medieval devotional practices, as well as art and aesthetics that help local faith communities engage in theological reflection. Communal forms of playing in/at God's new creation provide insights into pedagogies in which learners are creating and are created anew.

Author : Marella Ada V. Mancenido-Bolaños
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819941989
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Reasonableness in Education written by Marella Ada V. Mancenido-Bolaños and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the real-world application of the Philosophy for/with Children (P4wC) pedagogy to cultivate reasonableness in individuals through communities of philosophical inquiry. It presents a collection not only of theories but, more importantly, of experiences, discoveries, and innovations on P4wC by scholars, trainers, advocates, and practitioners around the world. Each chapter provides readers with insights and lessons that have resulted from the continuous application, exploration, and enrichment of the concepts, principles, and practices that were developed by Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp into what P4wC is today - a dialogic pedagogical approach that may just be what is needed at a time when reasonableness and dialogue are essential to maintaining global stability and progress. In this light, this book also looks into how the P4wC approach can be practiced with adults such as when it is employed in various settings or contexts such as in business consulting, textbook writing, peace education, and extremism prevention, among others. Furthermore, this book also features chapters that discuss how the P4wC pedagogy can be beneficial once integrated into processes such as classroom teaching, teacher education, bioethics, and employee education. This book provides valuable insights about how reasonableness that is cultivated through building communities of philosophical inquiry in education can be a powerful tool for nation-building and social transformation.

Author : Barbara Sheklin Davis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532673310
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Jews, Three Opinions written by Barbara Sheklin Davis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Jews, Three Opinions examines a unique educational movement that began in 1980 when eight school leaders met to create RAVSAK: the Jewish Community Day School Network, an association of schools distinguished by being inclusive of all Jews in their communities. This singularly-purposed segment of the Jewish educational mosaic has not been studied before. As American Jews struggle with changing demographics and identities, it is instructive to see how community day schools and their network anticipated and accommodated many of this century’s most significant Jewish educational challenges. Two Jews, Three Opinions illuminates the community day school network’s embrace of Klal Yisrael, the unity of the Jewish people. It describes what led to RAVSAK’s success and then to its elimination as an entity, the exceptionality and importance of which was vastly undervalued and underserved by the American Jewish establishment. Arguing for the vital importance of pluralistic Jewish education in the twenty-first century, it issues a call to Jewish communal leaders to champion community day schools as guarantors of a knowledgeable and committed Jewish future.

Author : Victor Tissot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unknown Switzerland written by Victor Tissot and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Esther Singleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Switzerland as Described by Great Writers written by Esther Singleton and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307888207
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Heart, Open Mind written by Tsoknyi Rinpoche and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice for using meditative practices from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition to achieve a life of openness and freedom from negative emotions by tapping into the essential love that is part of our basic nature.

Author : Robert Underwood Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembered Yesterdays written by Robert Underwood Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: