Powerful Learning Environments And Theologizing And Philosophizing With Children
by Hank Kuindersma /
2013 / English / PDF
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This volume contains the contributions for an international meeting
of pedagogues in Religious Education in Europe. These pedagogues
came together on 4 to 7 April, 2011 for a conference entitled
Powerful Learning Environments & Theologizing and
Philosophizing with Children at the Protestant Theological
University in Kampen, the Netherlands. The program included two
main, intriguing questions: What do we mean by the concept of a
powerful learning environment? What is the meaning of powerful
learning environments for the practices of theologizing and
philosophizing with children? These questions were at first
discussed in presentations dealing with the following topics: The
didactic preconditions and elements for teaching Religious
Education from the perspective of a powerful learning environment
Examples of 'good' subject materials - stories, artefacts,
textbooks, films and so on - to stimulate philosophizing and
theologizing with children Secondly, the concept and the meaning of
powerful learning environments for theologizing and philosophizing
with children in the practices of school and church were discussed
on 7 April during the open conference day. A hundred and thirty
interested people, experts and practitioners from the Netherlands
and Belgium not only attended two inspiring performances about the
state of the art of philosophizing and theologizing with children
in Europe, but also visited various workshops afterwards. The
collected contributions in this volume provide a meaningful insight
into an inspiring conference and invite anyone who is interested in
children's theology to continue thinking about the two central
questions of the conference.
This volume contains the contributions for an international meeting
of pedagogues in Religious Education in Europe. These pedagogues
came together on 4 to 7 April, 2011 for a conference entitled
Powerful Learning Environments & Theologizing and
Philosophizing with Children at the Protestant Theological
University in Kampen, the Netherlands. The program included two
main, intriguing questions: What do we mean by the concept of a
powerful learning environment? What is the meaning of powerful
learning environments for the practices of theologizing and
philosophizing with children? These questions were at first
discussed in presentations dealing with the following topics: The
didactic preconditions and elements for teaching Religious
Education from the perspective of a powerful learning environment
Examples of 'good' subject materials - stories, artefacts,
textbooks, films and so on - to stimulate philosophizing and
theologizing with children Secondly, the concept and the meaning of
powerful learning environments for theologizing and philosophizing
with children in the practices of school and church were discussed
on 7 April during the open conference day. A hundred and thirty
interested people, experts and practitioners from the Netherlands
and Belgium not only attended two inspiring performances about the
state of the art of philosophizing and theologizing with children
in Europe, but also visited various workshops afterwards. The
collected contributions in this volume provide a meaningful insight
into an inspiring conference and invite anyone who is interested in
children's theology to continue thinking about the two central
questions of the conference.
