[Springboard] [Oe List ...] The Emerging Shape of the New Pedagogy

[Herman Greene]

I certainly like this thought that the embodiment was the methodology. If
that’s what methodology is, it was the key.

 

I also think there is a deep insight here about what was learned about
transforming presence as people worked in mission around the world.
Transforming presence is pedagogy.

 

Ah yes, then there is the new curriculum. It is different too.

 

The most difficult part to digest of Bill’s message is that is up to us in
our mature, elder and elderly years to pass this on. Rather like Abraham and
Sarah having a baby and naming their son “he will laugh.” Though no doubt
there are second and third generationers also to carry this on.

 

Herman

 

 

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Subject: [Oe List ...] The Emerging Shape of the New Pedagogy

 

Colleagues,

Speaking of the New Pedagogy, which implies a new pedagogue, perhaps the
obvious needs to be pointed out. Here are some thoughts about the emerging
shape of the New Pedagogy as seen through the presence of the new pedagogue.


The New Pedagogy is remarkably different from anything we have ever done in
our past because the pedagogue is completely different from the pedagogue of
the past, even if the pedagogues are the same person. The pedagogue of the
60’s was not global, in spite of one’s self story, nor had the pedagogue of
the 60’s spent 30 years living the Dark Night of the Soul. The 60’s
pedagogue had no understanding of the terrain and topography of the other
world in the midst of this world, the Kingdom of God, I believe Jesus called
it. The old pedagogue had no first hand knowledge of what the pedagogy of
the oppressed was nor how it worked in every land of the planet until they
went there and did it. The old pedagogue had no clue as to how to be
sustained in a solitary and self-sufficient life. The pedagogue of the 60’s
was naïve about the world and about the consequences of not being
rewsponsible globally, theologically, or economically, as the human
condition and the condition of the planet reveal so clearly today. The
Pedagogue of the 60’s saw ecumenism insofar as the Christian community was
concerned and not as a vehicle for global peace and diversity through
interaction of an inter- faith community. 

The pedagogy of the past was but a prelude to the pedagogy we are now
putting together. The pedagogue of the past was but a spiritual shadow of
the pedagogues you have become today. But we must shake off our stylistic
compromises and our preferred prejudices we acquired in order to be
imminently presentable to our chosen markets, if we are to build the earth.
We cannot keep doing what we have been doing, we cannot simply wrap our arms
around everything everyone is doing and say that is it, we must courageously
embrace a new role, take a new risk, embrace an open future, address the
global contradiction and see to it that what needs to be done is getting
done.

None of us as individuals woke up until someone awakened us personally. Only
then did we grasp that we could be a skilled pedagogue awakening and
training thousands in a new pedagogy for the sake of awakening the world to
a new way of being human.  We live in urgent times now and our time is
short.  If we are going to move on this moment, now is the time to move.
There is no doubt we have been prepared by the fire of life for this. The
only question is who will. 

There is no new pedagogy nor new pedagogue without embodying that which is
being disclosed in the style of the pedagogy. RSI changed our lives because
the pedagogues were living their pedagogy! That reality was the methodology.
We, too, are called to be that embodiment regardless of whether we say yes
or no to what history is asking us to do. 

With profound respect, take care for there is little time and so much to do.


Grace and Peace be unto you.

Bill

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