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| David Smith |
| A native of the United Kingdom, before moving to Calvin I worked as a researcher and teacher educator at the Stapleford Centre (www.stapleford-centre.org), a Christian educational institute in Nottingham, UK. There I was involved in an extensive curriculum project which produced, among other things, foreign language course materials designed to encourage the moral and spiritual development of learners. I currently serve as an editor of both the Journal of Education and Christian Belief and the Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages. |
| Biblical Teaching | | On Viewing Learners as Spiritual Beings |
| Recent Articles |
Study Guide: Learning from the Stranger
This study guide accompanies David I. Smith, Learning from the Stranger: Christian Faith and Cultural Diversity (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010). It was produced by Kuyers Institute–funded study group in the spring of 2010. | On Viewing Learners as Spiritual Beings
This article, first presented as a plenary address at the CELT 2007 conference at Seattle Pacific University, explores the implications of challenging reductive understandings of learners in language classrooms and working instead with a conception of the learner as a spiritual being. Some reasons why it has been difficult to frame a place for spirituality in accounts of the language learner are
described, and an example is examined of an attempt to design a sequence of classroom learning in the light of a concern for students' spiritual growth.
Article reprinted from CELEA News (Feb. 2009). | Study Guide: The Wounded Leader
This study guide accompanies Richard Ackerman and Pat Maslin-Ostrowski, The Wounded Leader: How Real Leadership Emerges in Times of Crisis (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002). It is based on discussions held at the January 2008 meeting of the "Strengthening the Heartbeat" program, funded by the Van Lunen Foundation and led by Bruce Hekman. |
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