TY - JOUR AU - Roebben, Bert PY - 2014/09/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Spiritual learning communities: historical, systematic and practical observations1 JF - Revista Pistis & Praxis JA - Rev. Pistis Prax., Teol. Pastor. VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Dossiê DO - 10.7213/revistapistispraxis.06.002.ds05 UR - https://periodicos.pucpr.br/pistispraxis/article/view/7091 SP - 473-495 AB - <p>Children and young people have the inalienable right to be part of a learning community. Nobody can learn on his/her own. Education is always a communal enterprise. In this paper the concept of the ‘spiritual learning community’ is developed as a contemporary answer to the socio-educational issues raised by Martin Buber and John Dewey in the 1930s. Cultural and religious diversity today stimulate education and schooling more than ever before to reconsider the narrative-communicative and spiritual dimension of every learning process. The spiritual dimension of the learning community relates to a specific<br />habitus, namely of de-centration from the self and dedication to the other, and to a specific focus, namely on existential questions such as content of the learning process. Insights<br />from philosophy of education and from European religious education theory and concrete experiences of teacher education at the universities of Dortmund (Germany) and Wien<br />(Austria) form the horizon for this reflection.</p> ER -