Title
Catholic Social Learning : Educating the Faith That Does Justice / Roger Bergman.
ISBN
9780823291120
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (228 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823291120 doi
Summary
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 out") 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.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Available in Other Form
print 9780823233298
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART I FOUNDATIONS
1 Personal Encounter: The Only Way
2 Ignatian Pedagogy and the Faith That Does Justice
3 Teaching Justice After MacIntyre: Toward a Catholic Philosophy of Moral Education
PART II APPLICATIONS
4 Immersion, Empathy, and Perspective Transformation: Semestre Dominicano, 1998
5 ''We Make the Road by Stumbling'' Aristotle, Service-Learning, and Justice
6 Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women: On Teaching Moral Exemplars
PART III INSTITUTION AND PROGRAM
7 Education for Justice and the Catholic University: Innovation or Development? An Argument from Tradition
8 Aristotle, Ignatius, and the Painful Path to Solidarity: A Pedagogy for Justice in Catholic Higher Education
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
