RT Article
T1 Educating for/in Caritas: A Pedagogy of Friendship for Catholic Higher Education in Our Divided Time
JF Horizons
VO 45
IS 1
SP 74
OP 104
A1 Hanchin, Timothy
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663042438
AB The sweeping movement of student protest over racial discord on university campuses reflects intractable divisions in the public square. Catholic higher education is obligated by its mission to address this interpersonal situation with practices of healing as integral to its formational end. This article approaches Thomas Groome's shared Christian praxis as a "pedagogy of caritas" in light of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. The focusing activity and five movements of shared Christian praxis enact the dynamic structure of Bernard Lonergan's cognitional and existential interiority. Friendship praxis sets the conditions for the possibility of self-transcendence and healing for a commodified and increasingly diverse community of learners. A pedagogy of friendship is a promising integrative teaching strategy for a Catholic university in our divided time.
K1 Catholic University
K1 Caritas
K1 Friendship
K1 Pedagogy
K1 shared Christian praxis
DO 10.1017/hor.2018.1