Let's get educated!

I am enrolled in a class entitled "Education I" in which I will be (from the course outline) "exploring three dimensions of Christian education: congregation as learning community, equipping people for teaching/learning tasks and connecting learning community with vocation in the world." All this in just the next six weeks. And I was worried that seminary would move too slow for me!

One element of the class will be a weekly reflective writing on the assigned readings and subsequent class discussions. We have been encouraged to use whatever narrative style we believe would give us the best ability to respond. Ah ha... the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. I can use this blog to post my reflections for the assignment and also share publicly some of my experiences and observations.

In order to distinguish the postings relative to this particular class, the themes of education, learning or teaching will be in the title of the post. I will also tag these post with "Education I." This way if any of my musings lead me in odd directions, you'll know whether or not this class is to blame.

You can thank my professor if any of this seems to be interesting, thought-provoking or valuable. I know I will.