Catholic Social Learning : Educating the Faith That Does Justice Paperback / softback
by Roger Bergman
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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 outâ€) 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:15/04/2011
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- ISBN:9780823233298
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:15/04/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780823233298