Proceedings
2004 Meeting Papers

Contextual Pedagogies:
Teaching Context as Religious Text
November 5-7, 2004
Denver, Colorado

These papers and presentations are being given at the 2004 meeting of the Religious Education Association. The Call for Papers Committee has selected Research Interest Group and Colloquium papers based on abstracts submitted by the authors. The papers, as they exist on this site, have not been edited or fully juried by REA. The author of a paper is fully responsible for its content. All links are to "pdf" formatted files, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing.

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Baratte, Linda L. -- Growing Within Our Hearts:  Exploration in the Faith Development and Religious Education of Adopted Children and Their Parents (RIG)

Bower, Thom -- Contextual Pedagogies:  Teaching Context as Religious Text (RW)

Davis, Dent C. -- Accelerated Learning and Adult Religious Education:  Potential and Pitfalls (RIG)

Davis, Rebecca L. -- Perpetuating Justice:  Transformative and Emancipatory Pedagogies (RIG)

deRoos, Simone A. -- Young Children’s God Concepts:  Influences of Attachment and Socialization in a Family and School Context (RIG)

Edie, Fred P. -- A Different Context for Difference:  Protestant Christian High School Students Practice the Ordo (RIG)

Elias, John L. -- Thomas Edward Shields, Pioneer Catholic Religious Educator (RIG)

English, Leona M. , Mario O. D’Souza, and Leon Chartrand -- Religious Education Journals on Two Sides of the Atlantic—Are We Alike or Different? (RIG)

Everist, Burton -- Community College:  Challenging Context for Teaching Religion (RW)

Gapes, Christine -- Braiding Learning:  Weaving Mats and Eating Kim-Chee Pie (RW)

Gilmour, Peter -- Text and Context of ‘The Passion of Christ (RIG)

Hess, Carol Lakey -- Fiction and the Public Search for Truth (RIG)

Jones, Beverly -- The Great Assignment (COL)

Lee, Boyung -- Decolonizing Bible Studies:  A Postcolonial Challenge to Contextual Pedagogy (RIG)

Leuze, Thomas E. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Experiment in Theological Education:  Would Finkenwalde Be Accredited by ATS (RIG)

Magrini, Cheryl -- Ethnographic Inter-textual Voicing in Children’s Storyboard Art:  Biblical Meal Stories Interpreted through the Practice of Hospitable Pedagogy (RIG)

Markuly, Mark -- Literacy of the Heart:  Finding a Language for the Affective Dimension of Religious Education (RIG)

Miedema, Siebren -- Religious Education Today:  Between James and Durkheim and in Dialogue with Charles Taylor (RIG)

Nolan, Lucinda A. -- John Lancaster Spalding (1840-1916): An Early American Catholic Philosopher of Religious Education (RIG) [presented but not posted]

O’Keefe, Theresa -- Coming to Know the Other—Coming to Know Oneself:  A Study of Jewish-Catholic Dialogue at the Congregational Level (RIG)

Roebben, Bert -- Redefining Theological Language and Education in the Context of Pastoral Ministry with Young Adults (RIG)

Singer, Sue -- Educating for Conviction and Commitment:  Insights from Postmodernity (RIG)

Song, Nam Soon -- Self-Cultivation and Christian Education:  Exploring Self-Cultivation in the Life and Teaching of Jesus (RIG)

White, Richelle B. -- Christian Education Theory for the Hip-Hop Generation (RIG)

Winings, Kathy -- Taking Religious Education Out of the Classroom:  Service Learning as an Effective Contextual Pedagogy (RIG)

Yu, Chin Cheak -- Christian Religious Education for Awakening and Living in the Spirit in a Chinese Church Context (COL)