Stephen Pickard | Michael Welker | John Witte (Eds.): The Impact of Education (Leseprobe)
This book investigates the impact of education on the formation of character, moral education and the communication of values in late modern pluralistic societies. Scholars from four continents and many different academic fields are involved. While the basic framework for the contributions is informed by Christian traditions, the disciplines cover a significant range, including theology, education, psychology, literature, anthropology, law, and business. This makes for a rich variety of thematic concentrations and perspectives. Readers will quickly sense that the educational foundations and trajectories of any given country are pervasive and have a significant reach into the fabric and shape of the society and its values, making education a barometer of the well-being of a people and their culture. The result is a volume that will inform, stimulate and challenge our understanding of the role of education in contemporary societies.
This book investigates the impact of education on the formation of character, moral education and the communication of values in late modern pluralistic societies. Scholars from four continents and many different academic fields are involved. While the basic framework for the contributions is informed by Christian traditions, the disciplines cover a significant range, including theology, education, psychology, literature, anthropology, law, and business. This makes for a rich variety of thematic concentrations and perspectives. Readers will quickly sense that the educational foundations and trajectories of any given country are pervasive and have a significant reach into the fabric and shape of the society and its values, making education a barometer of the well-being of a people and their culture. The result is a volume that will inform, stimulate and challenge our understanding of the role of education in contemporary societies.
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erosion <strong>of</strong> community bonds. Thus, the sages condemn those who appear falsely<br />
or who present themselves as different than they really are, and they praise those<br />
who cansee the true character <strong>of</strong> aperson, as in Proverbs 28:11: “<strong>The</strong> rich person<br />
is wise in his own eyes, but adiscerningpauper can see through him.” <strong>The</strong> ability<br />
to distinguish truth from falsehood is finally about the health <strong>of</strong> the community’s<br />
life together.<br />
This brings us back to where we started, and the crisis <strong>of</strong> truth currently surging<br />
across the globe in the form <strong>of</strong> the pandemic’s infodemic, which has severe<br />
consequences for the physical, mental, and moral health <strong>of</strong> society. While Proverbs<br />
does not <strong>of</strong>fer aprescription for the contemporary form <strong>of</strong> this malady, it<br />
points to the dynamics <strong>of</strong>competing voices clamoring for ahearing and urges<br />
discernment about the desires to which they appeal. Proverbs suggests that acontest<br />
<strong>of</strong> truth is in many ways atest <strong>of</strong> character within the community.
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