{"id":475,"date":"2007-08-06T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T15:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/475"},"modified":"2007-08-06T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T15:10:31","slug":"myths-about-opossums-goats-and-holistic-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/475","title":{"rendered":"Myths about Opossums, Goats, and Holistic Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from the book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourbook.com\/BookInfo\/IP13683-04.asp \">Myths: Fact and Fiction about Teaching and Learning<\/a><\/i> by Israel Galindo. How well do you know fact from fiction? <\/p>\n<p>MYTH: Opossums \u00e2\u20ac\u0153play dead\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when they are threatened or endangered.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/mythscover.gif' alt='mythscover.gif' \/><\/p>\n<p>TRUTH: Opossums, like most animals, lack the self-awareness to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fake out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d an enemy. They actually faint when threatened. There is a breed of goat that does the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>MYTH: The most important function of Christian education is to teach the content of our faith: the Bible and the truths it contains.<\/p>\n<p>TRUTH: While knowledge of the Bible is important to faith\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven critical given today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biblical illiteracy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto make that the sole purpose of Christian education will make for a skewed spiritual formation. The Gospel always comes in context and relationships. For a balanced personal faith, a person needs to receive instruction, education, and nurture in the Christian faith. Each is a critical part of the holistic formation of the growth in discipleship. <\/p>\n<p>The content of our faith meets us in transformative ways when we can make meaning between its truth and our experiences of self, with God, and with our world. Information in and of itself is merely data\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit means little. Passing on knowledge, even important knowledge does not necessarily bring about meaningful change in a person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life. A holistic Christian education will give attention also to community, relationship, experience, culture, the teacher, the context in which learning happens, and developmental states of both teacher and learner. These are the things that help mediate the transformative power of learning between knowledge (information) and the learner. <\/p>\n<p>You can order a copy of the book <i>Myth: Fact and Fiction about Teaching and Learning<\/i> by Israel Galindo (ISBN 0-9715765-4-8) directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galindoconsultants.com\">Educational Consultants<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/galindobanner3.jpg' alt='galindobanner3.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from the book Myths: Fact and Fiction about Teaching and Learning by Israel Galindo. How well do you know fact from fiction? MYTH: Opossums \u00e2\u20ac\u0153play dead\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when they are threatened or endangered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-education","category-sunday-school","category-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}