SWU professor co-edits book for Christian educators
Dr. Paul Shotsberger, professor of graduate studies at SWU, has co-edited with Dr. Cathy Freytag, associate dean of the faculty and professor of education at Houghton College, a book titled “How Shall We Then Care? A Christian Educator’s Guide to Caring for Self, Learners, Colleagues, and Community.”
The book, published by Wipf and Stock Publishers, explores Christian ethic of care as it relates to teachers and what that care looks like in various contexts, including not only teaching but also teacher education. The settings for these explorations span the spectrum from K-12 classrooms to Christian and public higher education, covering issues such as trauma-informed classroom practice (teacher response to students impacted by traumatic stress), the use of role-playing games for teaching ethics, the transition from teacher candidate to novice teacher, the crucial interface between care and inclusive education, and the vital role empathy plays in educational care.
“Today, many teacher education programs are concerned about teachers leaving the profession in greater and greater numbers. This book directly addresses that problem through a consideration of Christian ethic of care, especially in the context of care for new teachers. Further, teacher preparation programs at Christian universities are often challenged in terms of their capacity to prepare students to demonstrate an ethic of care from a Christian perspective in the public school classroom where the Bible and prayer are considered too dangerous or extreme. Yet, as the chapters in this book illustrate, there are many avenues for Christian educators to demonstrate a Christian ethic of care that are not only acceptable, but desperately needed in the classroom,” say the book’s editors.
“How Shall We Then Care?” is available from Amazon.com.
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