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Learning Sumud: Acts of Meaning in Education

Learning Sumud: Acts of Meaning in Education. The Voice of Palestine in the Renewal of Religious Education Bethlehem March 4th, 2011 Thom Geurts. Survey. Mahmoud Darwish: To My End and to Its End Religious Education in Search for Meaning Approaching Sumud

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Learning Sumud: Acts of Meaning in Education

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  1. Learning Sumud: Acts of Meaning in Education The Voice of Palestine in the Renewal of Religious Education Bethlehem March 4th, 2011 Thom Geurts

  2. Survey • Mahmoud Darwish: To My End and to Its End • Religious Education in Search for Meaning • Approaching Sumud • Learning Sumud: Voices of Palestine in Post Traditional Religious Education • Moral Leadership in Learning Sumud • The Voice of Darwish: A Voice of Sumud

  3. 1. Mahmoud Darwish To My End and to Its End … (In: Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?, Beirouth, 1995.) In Search for Sumud in Poetry …

  4. 2. Religious Education in Search for Meaning • The Traditional Model of RE • The Neo Traditional and Interreligious Model of RE • RE in the Post Traditional Context of Personal Search for Meaning

  5. 2.1 The Traditional Model of RE • Religion: Institutional Phenomenon • Aim: Socialisation of the Student in the Tradition • Content: Institutional Forms • Didactics: Cognitive Approach, Knowledge Dominates • Student: in a Recieving Role • Context: Doesn’t Influence Tradition

  6. 2.2 The Neo Traditional and Inter- Religious Model of RE Context Changes: Globalization and Religious Pluralism • Religion: Institutional Phenomenon • Communicative Aims • Content: Institutional Forms, Compared and Presented Together • Didactics: Cognitive Approach, Knowledge • Student: in a Recieving Role • Context: Influences RE Quantitative (plurality)

  7. 2.3 RE in the Post Traditional Context of Personal Search for Meaning • New Theory and Practice of Learning • Students in a Constructive Role • Learning by Doing • All Day Life Context: Constitutive for Learning (“Authentic Learning”) • Learning Competences

  8. 2.3 RE in the Context of Personal Search for Meaning 2. RE in the Context of New Learning • Student: Ultimate Concern for Meaning • Ultimate Meaning • Situated in All Day Life • Emotion and Cognition in Connection • Aim: Competences in Acts of Meaning • Traditions Implicated, to Trade is a Verb!

  9. 2.3 RE in the Post Traditional Context of Personal Search for Meaning 3. Learning Acts of Meaning in RE • Be Sensible for the Dimension of Ultimate Meaning! • Explicate Personal Values in Personal Stories of Life! • Relate Yourself to Value Communities as a Source of Values (e.g. Family, Friends, Fellow Citizens)! • Relate Yourself to Religious Traditions as a Source of Values! • Make a Moral Judgement or a Religious Opinion! • Estimate Consequences of this Judgement and Opinion!

  10. 2.3 RE in the Post Traditional Context of Personal Search for Meaning 4. Communicative Tools in RE • Ego Documents: Diaries, Letters, Photography, Poems, Songs, Stories of Life, Personal Web Sites, New Social Media • Family History, Interviews, Folklore, Poverbs, Literature, Oral History • Institutional Forms of Relgious Traditions, Narratives, Prayers • Dilemmas and Stories that Describe Problems of Meaning in Situations • Discussions, Arguments

  11. 3. Approaching Sumud The Meaning of the Word Sumud • Knowledge or Wisdom? • Concept, Value or Virtue? • Sumud Needs Us to Have a Meaning • Understanding Sumud: Permanent Process of Dynamic Interaction • Sumud is Practice • Connected with Ultimate Meaning • Sumud Implicates the Sources of Ultimate Meaning

  12. 4. Learning Sumud: Voices of Palestine in New Religious Education • Stay in Search for Ultimate Meaning • Present the Wisdom of the Religious Traditions Concerning Sumud • Explicate the Wisdom of Folklore, Cultural Habits, Art, Concerning Sumud • Develop Moral Dilemmas and Stories of Existential Questions • Look for Consequences: How to Present Sumud in a Violent Context? How to Cope with the Deadly Spiral of Violence?

  13. 5. Moral Leadership in Learning Sumud • Be Aware of Being a Role Model • Be Aware that Meaning is Not a Fixed Statue But an Open Process • Present Core Experiences of Traditions • Resist Master Stories Pushing aside Personal Stories • Present the Implicit Wisdom of Folklore, Cultural Habits • Present your Personal Story of Life as a Context of Sumud • Keep Time and Space Open for Imagination and Hope • Care for Your Self! Vocational Spirituality

  14. 5. The Voice of Darwish: A Voice of Sumud • The Language of Senses: Sensibility Connects with the Depth of Being • The Openness of Time • Emotions Connected with Real Places and Memories • Solidarity between Generations • Not Without Education!

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