Catholic Social Learning : Educating the Faith That Does Justice / Roger Bergman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergman, Roger, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The canon for Catholic social teaching spreads to six hundred pages,yet fewer than two pages are devoted to Catholic social learning or pedagogy. In this long-needed book, Roger Bergman begins to correct that gross imbalance. He asks: How do we educate (“lead out”) the faith that does justice? How is commitment to social justice provoked and sustained over a lifetime? To address these questions, Bergman weaves what he has learned from thirty years as a faith-that-does-justice educator with the best of current scholarship and historical authorities. He reflects on personal experience; the experience of Church leaders, lay activists, and university students; and the few words the tradition itself has to say about a pedagogy for justice. Catholic Social Learning explores the foundations of this pedagogy, demonstrates its practical applications, and illuminates why and how it is fundamental to Catholic higher education. Part I identifies personal encounters with the poor and marginalized as key to stimulating a hunger and thirst for justice. Part II presents three applications of Catholic social learning: cross-cultural immersion as illustrated by Creighton University’s Semestre Dominicano program; community-based service learning; and the teaching of moral exemplars such as Dorothy Day, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and Archbishop Oscar Romero. Part III then elucidates how a pedagogy for justice applies to the traditional liberal educational mission of the Catholic university, and how it can be put into action. Catholic Social Learning is both a valuable, practical resource for Christian educators and an important step forward in the development of a transformative pedagogy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I FOUNDATIONS

1 Personal Encounter: The Only Way

2 Ignatian Pedagogy and the Faith That Does Justice

3 Teaching Justice After MacIntyre: Toward a Catholic Philosophy of Moral Education

PART II APPLICATIONS

4 Immersion, Empathy, and Perspective Transformation: Semestre Dominicano, 1998

5 ‘‘We Make the Road by Stumbling’’ Aristotle, Service-Learning, and Justice

6 Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women: On Teaching Moral Exemplars

PART III INSTITUTION AND PROGRAM

7 Education for Justice and the Catholic University: Innovation or Development? An Argument from Tradition

8 Aristotle, Ignatius, and the Painful Path to Solidarity: A Pedagogy for Justice in Catholic Higher Education

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9112-X

OCLC:

1350688261