Rethinking the Curriculum [electronic resource] : The Epistle to the Romans as a Pedagogic Text /
Ho, Orlando Nang Kwok.author.
This book is an inter-disciplinary endeavour. Encompassing education and basic research, it discusses the modular-curriculum embodied in The Epistle from educational, historical, sociolinguistic, anthropological, phenomenological, and non-sectarian perspectives. It shows the cross-boundary philosophical reasoning and pedagogic dimensions of St. Paul as a great teacher and thinker from the Jewish-and-Christian faith. In doing so, this book refocuses academia’s attention on the inevitable antimonic nature inherent in humans’ efforts to create systemic knowledge. Knowledge about the inner aesthetic and volitional-interpretative self – the immanent psychic “I” – and other philosophical aspects of the realm of the transcendental should be rescued from the deepening trends of secularity. Being strong, powerful, productive, and performative should not be taken as the indisputable and exclusive aim of education. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) do not constitute a sufficient basis for building a better humanity. Education via public curriculums ought to serve both the belly and the mind. Deliberative curricular recalibrations, with rationales for grace, are thus needed for a better future for humanity.... This book is relevant for anyone with a core fascination about truths, values, epistemologies, life, spirituality, and holistic human development. It can also be used as a textbook or a reference in a number of fields including counselling, psychology, translation, cultural studies, and theology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 Introduction: Reading and teaching The Epistle to the Romans -- 2 Making sense of a religious text: Methods and socio-epistemic divides in reading and teaching -- 3 Contextualizing interactions and teachings: Who were the learners? -- 4 Greco-Roman realities as perennials: The Law, the Righteousness, and the irrepressible Questionning -- 5 Understanding faith and spirituality: The origin, the epistemic, and the conduct -- 6 Philosophical anthropology: Rom 6 and Rom 7 as theoretical necessities -- 7 Teaching thinking across boundaries: Making sense of fates, identities, and heritages -- 8 The Good beyond the Law: Routines of life, values, and spirituality -- 9 Transforming life-schemas: Vicissitudes, pedagogic vision, and curriculums -- 10 Spiritual education, hope, and faiths: The one-dimensional man, pedagogic tunnel vision -- 11 The Epistle as a pedagogic text for educators: Life, values, spirituality, and Humanity -- 12 Rethinking the Curriculum: Learning and Teaching Romans then and now -- 13 Epilogue: From departmentalism to holistic education that embraces spirituality.
This book is an inter-disciplinary endeavour. Encompassing education and basic research, it discusses the modular-curriculum embodied in The Epistle from educational, historical, sociolinguistic, anthropological, phenomenological, and non-sectarian perspectives. It shows the cross-boundary philosophical reasoning and pedagogic dimensions of St. Paul as a great teacher and thinker from the Jewish-and-Christian faith. In doing so, this book refocuses academia’s attention on the inevitable antimonic nature inherent in humans’ efforts to create systemic knowledge. Knowledge about the inner aesthetic and volitional-interpretative self – the immanent psychic “I” – and other philosophical aspects of the realm of the transcendental should be rescued from the deepening trends of secularity. Being strong, powerful, productive, and performative should not be taken as the indisputable and exclusive aim of education. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) do not constitute a sufficient basis for building a better humanity. Education via public curriculums ought to serve both the belly and the mind. Deliberative curricular recalibrations, with rationales for grace, are thus needed for a better future for humanity.... This book is relevant for anyone with a core fascination about truths, values, epistemologies, life, spirituality, and holistic human development. It can also be used as a textbook or a reference in a number of fields including counselling, psychology, translation, cultural studies, and theology.
Religion and education.
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Education-History.
Religion and Education.
Philosophy of Education.
Educational Philosophy.
History of Education.