Educating for/in Caritas: A Pedagogy of Friendship for Catholic Higher Education in Our Divided Time

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 ar...

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Published in:Horizons
Main Author: Hanchin, Timothy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2018]
In: Horizons
RelBib Classification:CF Christianity and Science
KDB Roman Catholic Church
ZF Education
Further subjects:B Friendship
B Pedagogy
B shared Christian praxis
B Catholic University
B Caritas
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2050-8557
Contains:Enthalten in: Horizons
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/hor.2018.1