While I drove from student teaching to Echo Park en route to Downtown where I pick up my wife from work, I thought through a thread that connects Wendell Berry to Niebuhr and them to contemporary social science. The thread is fragility.
An advertiser wrote on a description for a new collection of Berry’s essays that Berry [...]
Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
March 4, 2010
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Action, Passion, Faith, and History
By jlkroeze in Faith, Learning
December 4, 2009
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Simone Veil on “Attention”
By Robert Minto in Devotion, Learning, Mystery“Prayer being only attention in its pure form and studies being a form of gymnastics of the attention, each school exercise should be a refraction of spiritual life.” — Simone Weil
Tags: prayer, school exercise, simone weil, spiritual life
November 25, 2009
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“Programming” As a Pedagogy of Desire
By Robert Minto in Community, Desire, Learning, PedagogyThis evening I borrowed and perused the first half of James K.A. Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom. His thesis involves the notion that because humans are not simply cognitive beings but actual desiring animals (embodied, and carrying in every action an implicit telos) Christian education needs to be about the forming of desires as well as [...]
Tags: campus programming, christian education, code of conduct, Desiring the Kingdom, Dordt College, james k a smith, programming students, residence halls, resident assistant, resident assistants, resident life
