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A Tale of Two Transformations

This post appeared first on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. I was recently provoked to fresh reflection on two very familiar passages as I prepared to share them with education students. One is about schooling; the other is about being…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

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Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 3

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, it is reproduced by permission. This is the third in a series of reflections on student vocation. I began in February by dipping into Protestant theologies of vocation and noting that the Christian’s basic calling…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

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Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 2

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced by permission. In February I posted a piece in which I wondered how we think about our students’ vocations and how that might affect how we teach. I pointed to a common…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

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Students and Vocation in the Present Tense

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced by permission.Some time ago, I noticed a poster on a departmental noticeboard at my university bearing the heading “Vocational Retreat.” It invited students to join a retreat at which alumni would share…

David I. SmithMarch 31, 2022

Articles & Essays Featured Technology in Schools

Consider the Snail: Teaching Online and Learning to Breathe

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholars Review blog, September 8, 2020, and is reproduced by permission. Snails, it turns out, have things to teach us, even for folk with advanced degrees. Things that could be relevant to an online course. Things that carry…

David I. SmithFebruary 16, 2021

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Articles & Essays Featured Voices from the Past

Reflections on How to Begin a Semester

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholars Review blog, January 8, 2021, and is reproduced by permission. I ended last year with some reflections on how to end a semester. Here I offer some reflections on how to begin one. They were provoked by…

David I. SmithFebruary 11, 2021

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Sticking with the Task: Some Reflections on Hope and Co…us.

This year, the 350th anniversary of the death of one of the most interesting educators of all time, my aim is to post a piece in each month of 2020 about John Amos Comenius. I am also writing this during the early days of state-wide…

David I. SmithMarch 30, 2020

Articles & Essays Featured Language and Culture Learning

Shouting at your Neighbor: Why we Bother with Other People’s Languages.

This essay was published in 2012 in the book Practically Human: College Professors Speak from the Heart of Humanities Education edited by Gary Schmidt & Matthew Walhout (Grand Rapids: Calvin College Press, 2012, 133-145). It asks why we invest time and resources in learning other…

David I. SmithSeptember 20, 2012

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Christian Faith and Language Pedagogy

I came across a short piece that I wrote as a journal editorial a little over a decade ago. I think several of its themes are still pertinent. It was published as the editorial of the Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages, since renamed the…

David I. SmithApril 10, 2008

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A Tale of Two Transformations

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 3

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 2

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense

Consider the Snail: Teaching Online and Learning to Breathe

Reflections on How to Begin a Semester

Sticking with the Task: Some Reflections on Hope and Co…us.

Shouting at your Neighbor: Why we Bother with Other People’s Languages.

Christian Faith and Language Pedagogy

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