I think there is an obvious link between Durka's "imagination" and Palmer's "open space." In an earlier blog, I suggested that this is the platform for grace, the playground of the Spirit. Truest teaching-learning is itself an action of the Spirit. Last week, I wanted us to consider what happens when Christ becomes the center, the subject, the great thing (in Palmerese) and how RADICALLY that will transform education.
The Kingdom of God is real...
What can we now know about ourselves and our students?
Who have we and our students become?
Why and what do we hope?
Why and what do we teach?
What do we now see?
How are relationships transformed?
Based off what I was commenting on in Justin's blog, I'd think a good way to create an open space in your religious studies classes would be to make Christ your subject and create an activity that puts the student in charge of the lesson with your facilitation as opposed to your dissemination of the material to be covered.
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I wonder if the atmosphere created in our class is only do-able as a seminar or colloquy with a limited number of students/knowers. A subject-centered class loses its dynamism when a given number of knowers are not participating such as is the case in most larger forums.
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