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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 |
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. | Biblical Teaching
This article first appeared in "Christian School Teacher" (Spring 2003) and is reproduced here by permission. It draws upon the recent book The Bible and the Task of Teaching by David I. Smith and John Shortt (Nottingham, UK: Stapleford Centre, 2002). You may download a PDF version at the bottom of the page. |
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