espanolDespues de delinear una critica de textos selectos de Paulo Freire y Benedicto XVI, los au... more espanolDespues de delinear una critica de textos selectos de Paulo Freire y Benedicto XVI, los autores se mueven mas alla de pensadores individuales hacia el analisis de la “mystagogia” de sus tradiciones religiosas; abren con una extensa descripcion del ritual de la Pascua judia, fundacional para la descripcion de la celebracion catolica de la Eucaristia – que adquiere su definicion propia – y que a continuacion describen. Al describir estos rituales, examinan las respuestas constructivas de Freire y Benedicto a la objetivizacion institucional de la persona humana en el eros de la comida en comun. Esta es la misteriosa libertad del eros, condicion necesaria para la posibilidad de una verdadera y perdurable comunion y esencial en una educacion liberadora. Esta libertad del eros es dejada de lado en la version marxista y en otras de la pedagogia critica que ignoran las raices teologicas. En vez de reaccionar a las limitaciones mencionadas, bien conocidas en la literatura, abrimos un ...
Encounters in Theory and History of Education, 2017
After outlining the common critique in selected texts Paulo Freire and Benedict XVI, we turn beyo... more After outlining the common critique in selected texts Paulo Freire and Benedict XVI, we turn beyond the individual thinkers and into the mystagogy of their common religious traditions, beginning with an extended description of the Jewish ritual of Passover, foundational to a description of the Catholic celebration of the Eucharist to follow, but also definitive in its own right. In describing these two rituals we find a fuller consideration of the constructive responses by Freire and Benedict to the institutional objectification of the human person in the eros of the common meal. This is the mysterious freedom of eros that is a necessary condition for the possibility of true and lasting communion, essential for any liberating education and often missing in Marxist and other accounts of critical pedagogy that ignore its theological roots. Rather than reacting to these limits to the present, well-known literature, we carve out an alternate path.
This essay is an extended reflection on the relationship between death and love expressed in a fr... more This essay is an extended reflection on the relationship between death and love expressed in a fragment from Song of Songs 8:6: «Strong as death is love». The passage will be analyzed through a Jewish, Orthodox, and Catholic exegesis and literary reflection. In particular, the essay describes the role of a particular form of love (eros) within a particular form of education (education at the end of time). While eros has frequently been ignored or resigned to a purely sexualized role, we will look closely at Augustine’s eulogy of his mother, Monica, in the Confessions, suggesting that perhaps the most visceral expression of eros is to be found in the phenomenology of death. We will also draw on the phenomenological manifestation of death by looking to the rich description of dying provided by Leo Tolstoy in his novella, The Death of Ivan Ilych.Together these investigations of eros and education yield a «curriculum of death», which draws on the re-conceptualist notion of curriculum. O...
meeting of SPSE in Chicago. However, other works, such as interviews, reviews, works in progress,... more meeting of SPSE in Chicago. However, other works, such as interviews, reviews, works in progress, and articles, will also be considered. See the introduction for an idea of the editorial strategy and scope of JPSE.
espanolDespues de delinear una critica de textos selectos de Paulo Freire y Benedicto XVI, los au... more espanolDespues de delinear una critica de textos selectos de Paulo Freire y Benedicto XVI, los autores se mueven mas alla de pensadores individuales hacia el analisis de la “mystagogia” de sus tradiciones religiosas; abren con una extensa descripcion del ritual de la Pascua judia, fundacional para la descripcion de la celebracion catolica de la Eucaristia – que adquiere su definicion propia – y que a continuacion describen. Al describir estos rituales, examinan las respuestas constructivas de Freire y Benedicto a la objetivizacion institucional de la persona humana en el eros de la comida en comun. Esta es la misteriosa libertad del eros, condicion necesaria para la posibilidad de una verdadera y perdurable comunion y esencial en una educacion liberadora. Esta libertad del eros es dejada de lado en la version marxista y en otras de la pedagogia critica que ignoran las raices teologicas. En vez de reaccionar a las limitaciones mencionadas, bien conocidas en la literatura, abrimos un ...
Encounters in Theory and History of Education, 2017
After outlining the common critique in selected texts Paulo Freire and Benedict XVI, we turn beyo... more After outlining the common critique in selected texts Paulo Freire and Benedict XVI, we turn beyond the individual thinkers and into the mystagogy of their common religious traditions, beginning with an extended description of the Jewish ritual of Passover, foundational to a description of the Catholic celebration of the Eucharist to follow, but also definitive in its own right. In describing these two rituals we find a fuller consideration of the constructive responses by Freire and Benedict to the institutional objectification of the human person in the eros of the common meal. This is the mysterious freedom of eros that is a necessary condition for the possibility of true and lasting communion, essential for any liberating education and often missing in Marxist and other accounts of critical pedagogy that ignore its theological roots. Rather than reacting to these limits to the present, well-known literature, we carve out an alternate path.
This essay is an extended reflection on the relationship between death and love expressed in a fr... more This essay is an extended reflection on the relationship between death and love expressed in a fragment from Song of Songs 8:6: «Strong as death is love». The passage will be analyzed through a Jewish, Orthodox, and Catholic exegesis and literary reflection. In particular, the essay describes the role of a particular form of love (eros) within a particular form of education (education at the end of time). While eros has frequently been ignored or resigned to a purely sexualized role, we will look closely at Augustine’s eulogy of his mother, Monica, in the Confessions, suggesting that perhaps the most visceral expression of eros is to be found in the phenomenology of death. We will also draw on the phenomenological manifestation of death by looking to the rich description of dying provided by Leo Tolstoy in his novella, The Death of Ivan Ilych.Together these investigations of eros and education yield a «curriculum of death», which draws on the re-conceptualist notion of curriculum. O...
meeting of SPSE in Chicago. However, other works, such as interviews, reviews, works in progress,... more meeting of SPSE in Chicago. However, other works, such as interviews, reviews, works in progress, and articles, will also be considered. See the introduction for an idea of the editorial strategy and scope of JPSE.
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