The Formational Experience of Learning Integration: From Fragments to Communion
This article will attempt to capture the formational experience of learning the integration of psychology and theology in the pedagogical space: from fragments to communion. Learning integration can be a disorienting and destabilizing experience for student and professor alike, often leaving student...
| Published in: | Journal of psychology and christianity |
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| Subtitles: | "Special issue: constructive theology in the psychology classroom" |
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| Format: | Print Review |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Journal of psychology and christianity
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| Review of: | After whiteness (Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020) (Strawn, Brad D.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Theology
/ Psychology
/ Integration
/ Decolonisation
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| RelBib Classification: | FA Theology FD Contextual theology ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Learning
B Theological Education B Book review B PSYCHOLOGY of learning |
| Summary: | This article will attempt to capture the formational experience of learning the integration of psychology and theology in the pedagogical space: from fragments to communion. Learning integration can be a disorienting and destabilizing experience for student and professor alike, often leaving students feeling upset or angry and asking "What is the point?" This is because learning integration, a form of theological education, is not simply the acquisition of new knowledge, but a kind of affective identity formation work. For this reason, Willie James Jennings and his book After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (2020) will serve as the primary interlocutor for this paper. Like Jennings, this paper will suggest that learning integration is a process of formation—standing in the spaces of the multiple fragments we inhabit in order to move toward what Jennings describes as communion. |
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| ISSN: | 0733-4273 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and christianity
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