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Linda Chiang and HeeKap Lee
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Jesus and His Pedagogy in Teaching
ICCTE Conference 2012, Azusa, CA.
Linda Chiang &
HeeKap Lee
Truth
• "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." from C.S. Lewis, Weight of Glory, "Is Theology Poetry?"
Truth
• Jesus was equipped with the personal qualifications for teaching;
• Jesus modeled the pedagogical way of teaching
• When He finished the teaching “the crowds were amazed at His teaching (Matthew 7:28-29)
Truth• Jesus’ teaching allowed certain
levels of uncertainty and ambiguity;
• Jesus’ teaching met the profoundest needs and demands of human nature;
• Jesus was enthusiastic to change society through teaching.
Purpose of this Inquiry
• To explore a comprehensive framework of Christian education;
• To build a community of shalom;
• To appreciate Jesus’ characters as a human and God
• To practice Jesus pedagogy by following the APU 4 cornerstones.
Jesus’ Character (Horne, 1998)Physical strength Love
skillPower to heal the bodyPrudencePleasure in social lifeLove of natureFriendlinessLove of childrenPassion for serviceJusticeAuthoritySense of missionLove of truthCourageInformation
Self-controlSelf-sacrificeJoyousnessGratitudeModestyDependencePrayerfulnessArtistic feelingAlertnessPositivenessSelf-respectSincerityDialectic skillSpirituality
Horne (1998)
Education always matters
• God, the Teacher• Jesus
– Everyday I sat in the temple court, teaching (Matt 26:55)
God, the Spirit Leader
-- Holy Spirit will teach you (Luke 12:12)
• 1. Accept who we are as a body of Christ– listen and reflect.
• 2. Demonstrate hospitality– facilitate comfort and care.
• 3. Fellowship and share truth—strengthen relationships(Call, 2011)
Education: A Sense of Community
Christian Education Model
Community of Shalom
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Imago Dei
Model Overview
Components Descriptions
Foundational Concept Imago DeiAll humans created in God’s image
Enabling Interventions
Direction Teaching for Reconciliation
Method Inquiry-based Instruction
Content Contextualized Pedagogy
Assessment Formative Evaluation
Goal of Education Building a Community of Shalom
Imago Dei implementation
• We must have a unique respect for human life: Every human being possesses an inherent dignity, meaning and worth
• It is the teacher's recognition of the uniqueness and value of each individual, evidenced in their treating all students with dignity, even love.
Framework to build a community of Shalom
Teaching for Reconciliation
• Creation, Fall, Redemption• Even though now laboring under the effect of
the Fall, it is still a good creation• Structure vs. Direction (Wolters, 2005):
– It is the direction that we are to engage in.
• Human beings as God’s representatives on earth carry on where God left
• Restoring our relationship with Creator– The purpose of Christian education is therapeutic &
redemptive
Inquiry-based approach
• Teaching process of Jesus
• From Information to Formation– Guiding inquiry with intriguing questions.– Allowing exploration of a hypothesis– Stimulate learners’ interest through a variety of
instruction methods
Contextualized Pedagogy
• Education should be contextualized• Contextualization is a continual process• To love communicationally is to put
oneself to whatever inconvenience necessary to assure that the receptors understand (Kraft, 1991)
• Stages of contextualized education– Decontextualization– Contextualization– Recontextualization
Formative evalution
Formative vs. Summative Evaluation- Process vs. Product - Check for Understanding vs. Final Judgment
Formative evaluation - Learners’ active participation in the pedagogical
process- Individual teaching/learning process- Preparing students for the summative
assessment that comes at the end of their struggles
• Biblical examples of formative evaluation– Individual teaching process: God tests/assesses, and
allows to grow
– Peter’s denials Jesus three times and Jesus restored him by saying, “feed my lambs” three times
– Jesus’ three years’ staying with his disciples. His time is formative, the summative conclusions on their lives and faith will come later
– “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope” (Romans 15:4)
Essential Goal of Education
• Build a community of shalom– Lion lies with the lamb
• Inner wholeness of the fulfilled person:– Upward & outward; – Everything exists in the order as God created;– A command to humans living here and now;– Personal, communal, Reciprocal Transformation
(Palmer,2003)
Jesus’ Teaching Model
DirectionDirection Method Content Evaluation
Redemptive Redemptive Inquiry Contextual Formative
Assimilated Summative Repetitive Repetitive IntellectualIntellectual
Selected References
• Call, C. (2010). The rough trail to authentic pedagogy: Incorporating hospitality, fellowship, and testimony into the classroom. In Smith, D. I. & Smith, J. K. A. (Eds.), Teaching and Christian practices. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Horne, H. (1998). Jesus the teacher. Grand Rapid, MI: Kregel Publications.
• Palmer, P. (2003). Toward a spirituality of higher education. In Henry, D. & Agee, B. (Eds.), Faithful learning and the Christian scholarly vocation, 75-84.
• Walters, A. (2005). Creation regained. Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub.