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key	8NUSPHKE
title	A Reading of Sona Farid-Arbab’s Moral Empowerment: In Quest of a Pedagogy
author	Filson, Gerald
authority control	Gerald Filson
item type	Journal article
publication year	2018
date	2018
publication title	Journal of Bahá'í Studies
abstract note	In setting out to determine the nature and scope of education, questions immediately arise when considering what makes education effective. Among those questions are the following: What should be the goal of education? How can we fit everything into a curriculum at a time when knowledge and information are accumulating at an unbelievable rate? And how can education address our need to learn about both the physical and the social world, different as they are? Farid-Arbab’s book, Moral Empowerment: In Quest of a Pedagogy, is an admirable effort to provide answers to such questions by starting with two even more fundamental questions: What is the nature of the human being, or learner? And what is the nature of understanding? Part 1 of this review of Moral Empowerment provides some comments about the background that led to the research and the ideas presented in the book. I then summarize the book in part 2, paying attention to how the book develops a set of ideas about the subject (or learner), understanding (or the process of learning), and the objects of learning (the curriculum). Moral empowerment, covered in part 3, is the concept around which Farid-Arbab’s conceptual framework is developed. In part 4, we look at the relationship between science and religion in order to gain a view of the range of appropriate objects of learning and the challenge of how to integrate a broad range of objects of learning into the curriculum. Finally, in part 5, we take up the central concept of capability as it serves to conceptualize an educational program. I then offer some concluding considerations on the continuity of thought, language, and action, as well as the collective and individual dimensions of education, along with a final note on the merits of the book.
pages	87-106
issue	3
volume	28
language	English
link attachments	https://bahai-studies.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/28.3-Filson.pdf
manual tags	EDUCATION; BOOK REVIEW; MORALITY

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