Sentences with word «paideia»

It can also be found in the classical Greek concept of paideia as, in Michael Oakeshott's words, a «serious and orderly initiation into an intellectual, imaginative, moral and emotional inheritance.»
It follows, third, that theological schooling as paideia focuses on the student because it supposes that for the student to understand God some kind of shaping or forming of the student is required.
In 2009 Richard co-founded the Queens Paideia School, a private alternative school in western Queens.
On both models of excellent schooling symbolized respectively by paideia and by Berlin, teaching can only be done indirectly.
This position evidently belongs with the «Athens» type, but it has been radically modified by the rejection of the assumption that usually goes with paideia — that of a universal «essence» to human nature or to human experience.
We're starting to see examples, including efforts by a partnership between the National Paideia Center at the University of North Carolina and New Visions for Public Schools in New York City, of how these modules can serve as building blocks to create new courses.
For Wood we do not need to posit something ahistorically and cross-culturally universal to all human beings, something «objective» like an invisible and immortal soul (which paideia presupposed in ancient Athens), of which «dispositions» and «character traits» are modifications.
Some of the practices of a congregation may be like paideia, but theological schooling in the end is not.
Most recently archived is Speaking and Listening Across the Common Core presented by Terry Roberts, director of the National Paideia Center.
It is the one subject that we seek to understand better through paideia.
Adopt - A-School Since 1999, John Wheeler, CEO of Rockford Construction, has ensured the kids at Henry Paideia Academy, a school in a tough part of Grand Rapids, Michigan, want for nothing.
Indeed, recent books about how best to understand theological education include proposals by both Edward Farley, in TheoIogia, and Charles Wood, in Vision and Discernment, [16] paideia as the central model quite deliberately and self - consciously.
This generated a differentiated proposal of reformed paideia, with significantly different modes of education for persons filling different functions in the city.
There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»
Of course Plato's utopian proposals were never adopted by early Christian churches and were not part of the practice of paideia inherited by them.
In all these settings, theological schooling that meets paideia's standards of excellence exhibits four features in particular.
Although, as we shall note, it underwent important changes between the fourth century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. the concept of paideia retained important continuities through this history.
As we saw in chapter 2, North American theological schools are located on various «Roads» and «Streets,» all of which in one way or another have historically taken paideia as the model of excellent schooling.
Clearly, this position belongs with the «Berlin» type in its stress on «professional» education, though it has been modified to include paideia - like nurturing of persons» Christian identities.
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