RESPONSIVE DISCIPLESHIP – INCLUDING unwrapping gifts, sharing joys and burdens, and seeking shalom – is a good framework for thinking about Christian education. However, this approach does not address adequately issues of social justice in the context of education. The lens of social justice take education further beyond the vestiges of individualism that ‘gift’ language carries and also beyond the enclosed classroom that sharing joys and burdens might suggest. Reframing those two in the context of seeking shalom brings out the social justice dimensions of unwrapping gifts and sharing joys and burdens.
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