Education in General and Theological Education
“If there is fault to find with education, and if the system appears to be breaking down, we assume that the first place to look for trouble must be teaching and the teacher. … My own research on general education began with teaching as the primary focus. But I have come to see that the real problem...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1971
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Theology today
Year: 1971, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 434-452 |
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| Summary: | “If there is fault to find with education, and if the system appears to be breaking down, we assume that the first place to look for trouble must be teaching and the teacher. … My own research on general education began with teaching as the primary focus. But I have come to see that the real problem in education today is not teaching and the teacher but learning and the student. The big question is not how to teach but who the student is and how he learns. … Until today, the big question has always been content-oriented: ‘What is education?’ But now high school, college, university, and graduate students are asking a different kind of question: ‘What is education for?’ When translated into the area of theological education, this becomes a ‘professional’ question”. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057367102700407 |