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Education's Highest Aim

Education's Highest Aim

Teaching and Learning through a Spirituality of Communion

by Amy J. UelmenThomas Masters and Michael James
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/03/2010

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Education's Highest Aim will be valuable for anyone interested in understanding and improving education -- teachers'; groups; school administrators; university courses in curriculum, instruction, or educational foundations; parents' organizations; developers of public policy.

"Here is an educational philosophy, a pedagogy and a practice grounded in the vision of unity, in a spirituality of communion. It is one that invites students, faculty, staff, administrators and families to work cooperatively for the development of the whole person. This is an educational aim of the highest order worth working together to achieve."

Anthony J. Cernera, Ph.D.
President of the International Federation of Catholic Universities

"... At the heart of the authors' application ... is the principle that the modern tensions of educational practice, including fragmentation, isolation, and secularism, can be reimagined through a 'spirituality of communion' among 'administrators, students, teachers, counselors, coaches, and maintenance staff.' The authors contend that Lubich's description of 'existential identity, ' where one 'achieves unity with another through a process of emptying oneself to be fully present with the other, ' can provide the harmony that is missing from a society in which individual competence is the norm.
Many of the stories and discussions could be ideal for an approach to the classroom and faculty meetings, and to learning how to walk alongside one another wherever conflict arises. In both complexity and simplicity, the book is a pleasant reminder of Jesus's summary of the law by first loving God and then loving one another. Christian administrators, teachers, and parents will find this book of particular interest."

Karen Buchanan and Ken McChesney
from their review in Journal of Education and Christian Belief; Vol. 16, no. 1 (Spring 2012)

ISBN:
9781565483361
9781565483361
Category:
Education
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-03-2010
Publisher:
New City Press of the Focolare
Country of origin:
United States
Michael James

Michael James grew up in Penzance, West Cornwall. He moved to London at the age of 18 and worked at the five-star Selsdon Park Hotel before joining Tom Aikens at the two-Michelin star restaurant Pied-a-Terre.

It was here he met his Australian wife Pippa. After moving to Sydney in 2004, he had the opportunity to work and learn with Dave McGuinness and Paul Allam at Bourke Street Bakery.

This job was the start of his baking career, and he has never looked back.

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