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Anabaptist ways of knowing : a conversation about tradition-based critical education / Sara Wenger Shenk ; foreword by Nancy Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shenk, Sara Wenger, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mennonites--Education.
- Mennonites.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Telford, Pa. : Cascadia Pub. House ; Scottdale, Pa. : Herald Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Remember Who You Are 13
- 1 A Congregational Portrait of Changing Practices 23
- Training in Good Habits
- Bodily and Social Memory
- Changes in Mennonite Lived Religion: Congregational Portrait
- Congregational Profile Summarized
- 2 Anabaptist Perspectives on "Knowing" 37
- Anabaptist Theology
- Descriptive Overview of Anabaptists
- Anabaptist Distinctives Relevant to Education
- Discipleship: Patterning Our Lives on Jesus Christ
- Hermeneutical Community: Discerning Truth Communally
- Ecclesiology: Tradition for Transformation
- Educational Implications
- 3 Classical Paideia and Anabaptist Distinctives 60
- Classical Greek Notions of Paideia
- Early Christian Notions of Paideia
- Paideia and Theological Education
- Critical Retrieval of Paideia
- An Alternative Paideia
- Paideia and the Ideal of the Good
- Paideia and Intellectual and Moral Virtues
- Paideia and Critical Inquiry
- 4 Other Voices: A "Knowing" Conversation with the Anabaptists 78
- Overview of Ways of Knowing
- Voices Invited to the Table
- Introducing Michael Polanyi
- Key Polanyi insights relevant to a tradition-based, critical educational theory
- Personal knowledge
- Bodily roots of tacit knowing
- Indwelling
- Society of Explorers
- Tradition and religion
- Concluding thoughts on Polanyi
- Introducing Rebecca Chopp
- Key Chopp insights relevant to a tradition-based, critical educational theory
- Person-centered education
- Ekklesia
- Practices as sites of learning
- Theology as "saving work"
- Concluding thoughts on Chopp
- Introducing Nancey Murphy
- Key Murphy insights relevant to a tradition-based, critical educational theory
- Relationship between science and theology
- Role of tradition and formative texts
- The priority of the ethical and theological to intellectual life
- Practices characteristic of the Radical Reformation heritage
- Concluding thoughts on Murphy
- 5 An Emerging Consensus About "Knowing" 119
- Exploring New Paradigms
- Knowing and Tradition
- Knowing and Ethics
- Knowing As Narrative In Action
- Knowing and Intuitive Imagination
- Communal Knowing As Disciplined Discovery
- 6 Weaving a Theory of Education from the Conversational Strands 133
- Constructing a Theoretical Framework
- Defining the Purpose
- A Formative Paradigm
- How Do We Know?-Philosophical Assumptions
- The Traditional Roots of Knowledge
- The Spiritual Roots of Knowledge
- The Communal Roots of Knowledge
- The Bodily and Tacit Roots of Knowledge
- The Intuitive And Imaginal Roots of Knowledge
- The Rational Roots of Knowledge
- The Ethical Roots of Knowledge
- The Practical Roots of Knowledge
- Educational Settings
- The Church
- The Family
- The School
- Strategies And Methodologies
- Reimaging Communal Ideals
- Indwelling Narratives And Practices
- Communal Moral Discernment As a "Society of Explorers"
- Revitalizing Core Practices
- Reflecting on Practice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1931038163
- OCLC:
- 51559128
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