- Title
- Leaving home: a pedagogy for theological education
- Creator
- Fleming, Dan; Mudge, Peter
- Relation
- Learning and Teaching Theology: Some Ways Ahead p. 71-80
- Relation
- http://encore.newcastle.edu.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3623320__SLeaving%20Home%3A%20A%20Pedagogy%20for%20Theological%20Education__Orightresult__U__X6?lang=eng&suite=cobalt#.VYNveGOIeGk
- Publisher
- Morning Star Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- This essay refers to the journey of theological education which necessarily takes one beyond one's home and into an encounter with mystery. It begins with a study of the home, which is informed by the works of David Ford and Emmanuel Levinas. Ford refers to a cultural ecology, which is understood as the cultural home which a community inhabits, and which we suggest can equally refer to one's own "home" worldview. Levinas is significant in his warnings about remaining within this worldview too much. In his words, this is "totalisation," understood as the damaging tendency to reduce all otherness to categories over which individual consciousness can claim control. Levinas uses the metaphor of home to illustrate this warning, noting the tendency to reduce mystery to what can be contained by the four walls of our conscious home and, in so doing, engage in a violent reductionism ill-suited to encountering what is ultimately mysterious. Arguing that this is unsuitable for theological education, we look to how pedagogies of displacement and disorientation informed by the work of Walter Brueggemann can be shown to break down the four walls of the home. In light of this, we offer for consideration a pedagogical cycle that could assist theological educators in their effots to encourage students to "leave home".
- Subject
- learning; education; theological education; home
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1065431
- Identifier
- uon:17839
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781925208191
- Language
- eng
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