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Disruptive Inclusion

Why and How Christian Adult Learning is For Everyone

Disruptive Inclusion

Why and How Christian Adult Learning is For Everyone

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Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334065333
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 31/03/2024
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.6 cm

What is Christian adult learning? What questions are raised when Christian faith and learning meet? Many existing approaches primarily address issues such as curriculum content or teacher character. Building on the work of John Hull, Disruptive Inclusion approaches the intersection of theology and pedagogy suggesting that the christianness of Christian adult learning is best expressed by the posture adopted by learners, not only via what is taught and by whom. Specifically, Jen Smith claims that a key to Christian adult learning posture is how learners include the unexpected and disruptive in their learning. Drawing on key resources, such as the biblical narrative, Christian tradition, liturgy, community and her own experiences, Jen takes us on a deeply personal and practical journey into disruptive inclusion and invites us to re-imagine what effective Christian adult learning might look like in the classroom, pulpit and online learning settings.

Acknowledgements: Prologue: Part I: Re-directing the conversation 1: Me, you and Christian adult learning 2: From here to somewhere else: why and how? Interlude: Learning in and from the Bible Part II: Re-defining the task 3: The Christian basis for adult learning. Theology practised 4: The Christian basis for adult learning. Practice theologised 5: The Christian distinctives of disruptive inclusion: new questions and new answers to old questions. Part III: Re-shaping practice 6: Disruptive inclusion and classroom learning 1 7: Disruptive inclusion from the pulpit 8: Disruptive inclusion and online learning Epilogue: always under construction?

Jen Smith

Jen Smith is a tutor at the Queen’s Foundation Birmingham. She has a Masters in Biblical Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena California and a PhD in Theology from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Her doctoral research focused on Christian adult learning methodology and she is passionate about facilitating conversation about what it means to teach and learn both in the church and other theological educational settings.

"Jen provides a helpful contribution for those interested in reflecting on how adults can learn in a way that is Christian. The book invites us to embrace the disruptive in church life as well as in the classroom, as part of our Christian journey. Jen weaves personal stories together with biblical reflection, great anecdotes and important literary voices." -- Selina Stone