Great question. Do you resonate with the response Rachel Toor received from a graduate class in physical education? When we were wrapping up, I asked them a question: "What is your relationship to reading and writing?" At that moment, they morphed from T-shirt-clad physical specimens and became generic graduate students, indistinguishable from all-in-black, cigarette-smoking studiers of literary theory and bearded-and-geeky future scientists. It's all we do, they wailed, and it's hard. ... The journal articles he … [Read more...] about What is your relationship to reading and writing?
Mentoring
The Purpose of Education
Related to our series on Education for Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective (Paul D. Spears and Steven R. Loomis, InterVarsity Press, 2009),* below is an email I received regarding the purpose of education. Agree/disagree? Thoughts/reactions? The purpose of education is to learn how to learn, some say. ... I'd say, to learn how to teach yourself. ... The teacher is a coach to assist in the process. ..."Dead Poets Society" and other movies picture the teacher as this mother bird throwing out worms to hungry … [Read more...] about The Purpose of Education
Query: Intergenerational Ministry Bibliography
In addition to the seminar mentioned in Query: Social Media, Community Development, Campus Ministry, I'm preparing a Bibliography for the upcoming Graduate & Faculty Ministry National Team Meetings. What do our friends in the Emerging Scholars Network have to share as resources (articles, blogs, books, webpages, etc) on Ages and life stages. The question of generational distinctives. Using the World Cafe to encourage good teamwork. Note: It's not necessary for the recommendations to focus on campus … [Read more...] about Query: Intergenerational Ministry Bibliography
Shaping the Next Generation of Higher Education
Two recent articles on the profession of education worth consideration: In Search of Education Leaders, by Bob Herbert, NY Times Op-Ed, December 4, 2009 The Ph.D. Problem: On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy's self-renewal, by Louis Menand, Harvard Magazine, November-December 2009. HT: Miller. Anyone willing to take a stab at why the educational system is so leaky and how we find/develop educational leaders which serve their department, discipline, campus, education … [Read more...] about Shaping the Next Generation of Higher Education
Emotional education through the season of Advent
In The Other Education (NY Times Opinion, November 26, 2009), David Brooks comments: For reasons having to do with the peculiarities of our civilization, we pay a great deal of attention to our scholastic educations, which are formal and supervised, and we devote much less public thought to our emotional educations, which are unsupervised and haphazard. This is odd, since our emotional educations are much more important to our long-term happiness and the quality of our lives. Bruce Springsteen serves as one of Brooks' … [Read more...] about Emotional education through the season of Advent