They also need to reflect on how those practices contribute to the larger
purposes of education in a democratic society.
In the resulting book, I will develop the theoretical concept of «borderless education»; present a series of narrative portraits that examine how transnational actors engage with the structures, content, pedagogy, and
purposes of education in conflict settings; explore how this transnationalism is distinct from traditional aid and may address challenges of access to learning in conflict settings; and investigate the implications not only for conflict settings but also other situations of uncertainty, be that economic, political, technological, or related to globalization processes.
Faith described primarily as a human phenomenon can give the impression that
the purpose of education in the church is to lead people through stages of faith.
She told those gathered that preparing students for citizenship «has been the primary
purpose of education in the United States,» but that its role has changed over time.
This case does just that, introducing deeper questions about
the purpose of education in Kakuma, and in refugee camps in general.
The goal and
purpose of education in this day and age, we would hope, is to prepare our students to collaborate with each other to solve the immense problems our world faces.
Not exact matches
To that end, we have teamed up with the University
of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler Business School — a recognized leader
in online business
education — to create an innovative executive certificate program called: Change the World: Leading with
Purpose.
With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation
of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation
in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate
Education's IPO
in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with
purpose and accountability.
You should only ladder when you have a specific
purpose in mind, like providing a consistent stream
of income or have particular investment objectives you're trying to meet, like tuition payments for a child's
education.
The American Association
of Individual Investors is an independent, nonprofit corporation formed for the
purpose of assisting individuals
in becoming effective managers
of their own assets through programs
of education, information and research.
The American Association
of Individual Investors is an independent nonprofit corporation formed
in 1978 for the
purpose of assisting individuals
in becoming effective managers
of their own assets through programs
of education, information and research.
The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious
education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious
purposes (this article), and they want subsidies
in the form
of tax breaks, special exemptions
of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.
Should students never perform any music with a religious text, even if done
in a secular setting and with the
purpose of providing a complete
education, not for the
purpose of worship or
of promoting a particular belief?
The imperative
of legitimating elite
education in our present moment overrides clear thinking about what higher
education seeks to accomplish: unity
of purpose in pursuit
of truth.
I first heard
of homeschooling as a child growing up
in a college town
in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes
in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting
education «the system» provided for its own repressive
purposes.
The
purpose of a canon for
education is that it be able to define what must be done
in order for a culture to teach its rising generation the cosmology that frames it and makes it work.
What are the Christian
purposes in higher
education which can be the mid-20th century equivalent
of those which were effective earlier
in contributing to humanization
of culture and cultural preparation for the gospel
of the Christ's new humanity?
Even where the church played a major role
in education, the
purpose was increasingly described
in terms
of service
of the national society.
In current discussions of the nature and purpose of theological education Edward Farley has invoked the older of these two models of excellence in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.&raqu
In current discussions
of the nature and
purpose of theological
education Edward Farley has invoked the older
of these two models
of excellence
in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.&raqu
in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.»
It is still referred to
in discussions about the
purpose and nature
of higher
education today on both sides
of the Atlantic.
No doubt this will be helpful for
purposes of interfaith dialogue or
in interfaith settings such as public
education where particular religious allegiances must remain muted.
Like their contemporaries who had chosen to combine outside careers with the raising
of children, they felt the attractions
of using their minds and
education in systematic, diligent ways;
of possessing a sense
of purpose independent from their husbands»; and
of avoiding the tedium
of housecleaning.
Each chapter discusses an aspect
of the one theme that the central
purpose of all
education — whether
in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area
of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation
of persons from the life
of self - centered desire to that
of devoted service
of the excellent, and at the same time the creation
of a democratic commonwealth established
in justice and fraternal regard rather than
in expediency.
Reflection on the obvious irrationality
of continuing race prejudice may help to make clear our central theme that the first aim
of education should be the awakening
of devotion to what is good,
in order that growth
in knowledge and skill may serve some valuable
purpose.
Many — if not most — studies — such as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and anthropology (to name only some
of them)-- by their very nature draw upon a variety
of other fields
of study and thus are particularly suited to general
education, provided they are not ruined for that
purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines — as occurs even
in such a naturally general field as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.
In all
of these approaches to the recovery
of purpose,
education has played a pivotal role.
The communists are even more thoroughgoing
in their employment
of education for the
purposes of revolutionary socialization.
This confidence
of modern man
in the power
of intelligence to free humanity from its ills and for the fulfillment
of its
purposes is reflected
in the universal commitment to
education.
It is not my
purpose to argue for the correctness
of one or the other view
of education, only to note that these are issues over which reasonable people may differ, and to question whether the State has a right to impose the first approach
in the face
of opposition from parents.
While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only
in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the
purpose of marriage is the procreation and
education of children.
Lastly,
education, service to a community and people gathered
in the name
of God, to me all have
purpose if used
in a responsible manner.
In principle, physical education provides the best opportunity for the harmonious development of the entire person, through contests of skill in which intelligence, esthetic imagination, social sensitivity, and moral purpose are channeled through significant physical activit
In principle, physical
education provides the best opportunity for the harmonious development
of the entire person, through contests
of skill
in which intelligence, esthetic imagination, social sensitivity, and moral purpose are channeled through significant physical activit
in which intelligence, esthetic imagination, social sensitivity, and moral
purpose are channeled through significant physical activity.
People who want to travel to third - world nations such as Mexico, the Philippines, the countries
in Central America and the Mideast with the specific
purpose of exploring the causes
of poverty and the impact
of U.S. policies can contact the Center for Global
Education, Augsburg College, 731 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454.
In this situation more than a hundred theological schools have agreed to examine themselves and the status of theological education in general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministr
In this situation more than a hundred theological schools have agreed to examine themselves and the status
of theological
education in general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministr
in general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their
purposes, their methods and their effectiveness
in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministr
in discharging their duties; to seek also ways
of improving their own ministry.
It may seem that professional schools are an exception to the rule; that social context and
purpose need to be considered only
in the case
of so - called «general
education.»
Rather, the central question
in the recent debate has been this: «What is the nature and
purpose of specifically theological
education?
However, with one exception (the feminist Mud Flower Collective's God's Fierce Whimsy, discussed
in Chapter 4), book - length essays about the nature and
purpose of theological
education written from any
of their perspectives have not yet been published.
The following chapters on the nature and
purpose of the Church, the ministry and the theological school constitute the first part
of the report
of The Study
of Theological
Education in the United States and Canada.
And
in the course
of that inquiry they quickly discover that
education is so closely connected with the life
of a community that queries about the aims
of teaching and learning can not be answered unless ideas about the character and the
purposes of the society
in which it is carried on are clarified first
of all.
Hence, good
education must have as one
of its major
purposes a participation
in the common life at an intelligent level, with due recognition
of all that is relevant to augmenting that life.
But the first
purpose of education must be the effort to lead young people, and indeed everybody, into a deeper understanding
of the historical past and
of the concrete world
in which they find themselves.
Niebuhr recognized this complexity when he wrote
in his essay The
Purpose of the church and its Ministry: Reflections on the Aims
of Theological
Education (New York: Harper and Row, 1956), 26, «The world is sometimes enemy, sometimes partner
of the Church, often antagonist, always one to be befriended; now the one that does not know what Church knows, now the knower
of what the Church does not know,» 13.
The
purpose of moral
education is to change people for the better and,
in so doing, to improve the quality
of life
in society; individually and collectively, we are to become better people than we might otherwise be.
The study was published
in two volumes: The
Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry,
in which Niebuhr developed a theological account
of ministry on the basis
of a theological analysis
of what the church is, and a report and interpretation
of research prepared by the three investigators, The Advancement
of Theological
Education.10
The first two
of these studies were published roughly a decade apart: Robert L. Kelly's Theological
Education in America
in 1924 and William Adams Brown and Mark A. May's four - volume study The
Education of American Ministers
in 1935.3 A major
purpose of both studies was fact - finding.
In order for theological education to overcome its self - contradictions and recover unity it needs to repent its placing ultimate love and loyalty in these proximate purposes and convert to placing all its proximate goals within the context of faith in the One beyond the man
In order for theological
education to overcome its self - contradictions and recover unity it needs to repent its placing ultimate love and loyalty
in these proximate purposes and convert to placing all its proximate goals within the context of faith in the One beyond the man
in these proximate
purposes and convert to placing all its proximate goals within the context
of faith
in the One beyond the man
in the One beyond the many.
For this reason, Pius XI argued, «If the whole
purpose of education is so to shape man
in this mortal life thathe will be able to reach the last end for which his Creator has destined him, it is plain that there can be no true
education which is not totally directed to that last end.»
Two very different proposals about the nature and
purpose of excellent theological
education are examined
in this chapter.
Too often the answer to this question is left implicit
in proposals about the nature and
purpose of theological
education, and the answer's coherence with the view
of theology that the proposals adopt is left unexamined.
Despite the takeover
of education by the state
in the United States, its religious
purpose was only partially obscured.