Application

Here are notes from our follow-up meeting in August. I'd like to begin our discussion on how you are finding ways to incorporate these ideas into your classrooms. Post your thoughts and ideas as they come to you and we will talk about them at our next all-school faculty meeting Monday.

August 27, 2009

1. How do you define Wisdom? Has that definition changed after reading Blomberg?

The realization of value. (To be fully aware of and to bring into concrete existence).

Wisdom is the ability to discern, "the most excellent way". I Corinthians 12:31 or what is right and good.

2. "Intimate relation between culture and organized education"

We must be counter-cultural.

3. What does Blomberg mean on page two that, " . . . a biblical perspective on wisdom has to function as an alternative to the dominant ideology of Reason?

We are biased by Reason

4. How do you react to his assertion on page four that the mode of relating (or relationship) to students constitutes curriculum?

Wisdom is found in relationship

5. What is the relationship between discernment and wisdom? Blomberg puts it as "critique is a concomitant of wisdom."

Problem-posing is a pathway

6. How did you react to the section on ambiguity and his belief that education should disclose ambiguity rather than conceal it?

Pat answers to complex questions are not acceptable

7. On page fourteen, Blomberg makes a key distinction between an Integrated Christian curriculum and an Integral curriculum. How do you understand the difference?

We begin with the whole. Faith and learning were never apart.