THE VULNERABILITY OF THE POSTMODERN EDUCATOR AS LOCUS THEOLOGICUS: A STUDY IN PRACTICAL THEOLOGY |
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| Authors: | Bert Roebben |
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| Institution: | King's College London , London, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | This article proposes the reconsideration of education's theological significance, proceeding from educators' experiences in a postmodern era. Uncertainty and vulnerability are central issues, not only with regard to the theological plausibility of education, but also with regard to a concrete process of adult faith formation. The responses that are formulated by educators to the perplexities of contemporary education can be fitting to an idea of adult faith formation where adults are themselves discovering, adapting, and constructing new roads of religious commitment and community building. This article contains three parts. First, it redefines the aim of education beyond the "constructability" of the child, in consequence of the issue of child abuse in Belgium. Second, it refers to five competencies to which the educator is inviting the child and to which the educator becomes intrinsically challenged. In a third movement these experiences are reformulated in a theological perspective as five traces for transcendence. |
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