Catholic Social Learning : : Educating the Faith That Does Justice / / Roger Bergman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Bergman, Roger,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

The canon for Catholic social teaching spreads to six hundred pages,yet fewer than two pages are devoted to Catholic social learning or pedagogy. In this long-needed book, Roger Bergman begins to correct that gross imbalance. He asks: How do we educate (“lead out”) the faith that does justice? How is commitment to social justice provoked and sustained over a lifetime? To address these questions, Bergman weaves what he has learned from thirty years as a faith-that-does-justice educator with the best of current scholarship and historical authorities. He reflects on personal experience; the experience of Church leaders, lay activists, and university students; and the few words the tradition itself has to say about a pedagogy for justice. Catholic Social Learning explores the foundations of this pedagogy, demonstrates its practical applications, and illuminates why and how it is fundamental to Catholic higher education. Part I identifies personal encounters with the poor and marginalized as key to stimulating a hunger and thirst for justice. Part II presents three applications of Catholic social learning: cross-cultural immersion as illustrated by Creighton University’s Semestre Dominicano program; community-based service learning; and the teaching of moral exemplars such as Dorothy Day, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and Archbishop Oscar Romero. Part III then elucidates how a pedagogy for justice applies to the traditional liberal educational mission of the Catholic university, and how it can be put into action. Catholic Social Learning is both a valuable, practical resource for Christian educators and an important step forward in the development of a transformative pedagogy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I FOUNDATIONS -- 1 Personal Encounter: The Only Way -- 2 Ignatian Pedagogy and the Faith That Does Justice -- 3 Teaching Justice After MacIntyre: Toward a Catholic Philosophy of Moral Education -- PART II APPLICATIONS -- 4 Immersion, Empathy, and Perspective Transformation: Semestre Dominicano, 1998 -- 5 ‘‘We Make the Road by Stumbling’’ Aristotle, Service-Learning, and Justice -- 6 Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women: On Teaching Moral Exemplars -- PART III INSTITUTION AND PROGRAM -- 7 Education for Justice and the Catholic University: Innovation or Development? An Argument from Tradition -- 8 Aristotle, Ignatius, and the Painful Path to Solidarity: A Pedagogy for Justice in Catholic Higher Education -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX