The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation.

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new political identities and notions of justice. Consider the rise of the Occupy Movement. Occupy Wall Street groups eschew specific goals or programs other than a general commitment to social justice and in part emerge as new political identities. They inscribe new ways of acting in concert and creating participatory modes of acting. They are also elements of a participatory public sphere that is deemphasized in Johnson and Knight’s experimentalism. Yet participatory democracy was what Dewey had in mind with his notion of a great community. It is better found in the deliberative democracy found in the Occupy movement than the planned experiments of Johnson and Knight. Democratic social movements suggest that democratic innovation requires a much broader notion of practical reason than Johnson and Knight suggest. Where Johnson and Knight see everyday social action as simple convention, from the participants’ perspective it is a reflexive form of mutual understanding. Social interaction takes place through structures of mutual accountability, in which our reflexivity extends to our own identities and ethical/moral frameworks. This notion of reflexive monitoring of action and the creation of new democratic forms, however, entails a communicative not a strategic notion of action.

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative

In this provocative book, David Elkind explores many of the expectations and experiences that contemporary children must face. In so doing, he develops a persuasive argument that parents, schools, and the media are increasingly placing their own needs above the needs of children and, thus, are failing to recognize the "special estate" that children deserve. Because they are vulnerable to pressures to hurry and grow up—too fast, too soon—children experience stress as they have "unusual demands for adaptation" placed on them. The author further contends that stress leads to such symptoms as free-floating anxiety, type A behavior, school burnout, and learned helplessness. Elkind also aptly notes that stress can strengthen some children: "the boiling water that hardens the egg softens the carrot." Weighing the beneficial v the detrimental effects of stress on children does not seem to be a central issue in this book. Rather, the author focuses on the

The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon

The purpose of this book is to combine perspectives of scholars from Africa on Child Theology from a variety of theological sub-disciplines to provide some theological and ministerial perspectives on this topic. The book disseminates original research and new developments in this study field, especially as relevant to the African context. In the process it addresses also the global need to hear voices from Africa in this academic field. It aims to convey the importance of considering Africa’s children in theologising. The different chapters represent diverse methodologies, but the central and common focus is to approach the subject from the viewpoint of Africa’s children. The individual authors’ varied theological sub-disciplinary dispositions contribute to the unique and distinct character of the book. Almost all chapters are theoretical orientated with less empirical but more qualitative research, although some of the chapters refer to empirical research that the authors have performed in the past. Most of the academic literature in the field of Child Theologies is from American or British-European origin. The African context is fairly absent in this discourse, although it is the youngest continent and presents unique and relevant challenges. This book was written by theological scholars from Africa, focussing on Africa’s children. It addresses not only theoretical challenges in this field but also provides theological perspectives for ministry with children and for important social change. Written from a variety of theological sub-disciplines, the book is aimed at scholars across theological sub-disciplines, especially those theological scholars interested in the intersections between theology, childhood studies and African cultural or social themes. It addresses themes and provides insights that are also relevant for specialist leaders and professionals in this field. No part of the book was plagiarised from another publication or published elsewhere.

Welcoming Africa’s children – Theological and ministry perspectives

The purpose of this book is to combine perspectives of scholars from Africa on Child Theologies from a variety of theological sub-disciplines to provide some theological and ministerial perspectives on this topic. The book disseminates original research and new developments in this study field, especially as relevant to the African context. In the process it addresses also the global need to hear voices from Africa in this academic field. It wants to convey the importance of considering Africa’s children in theologising. The different chapters represent diverse methodologies but the central and common focus is to approach the subject from the viewpoint of Africa’s children. The individual authors’ varied theological sub-disciplinary dispositions contribute to the unique and distinct character of the book. Almost all chapters are theoretical orientated with less empirical research, although some of the chapters refer to empirical research which the authors have done in the past.

Theologies of Childhood and the children of Africa

This article seeks to contribute to the process of reconciliation in South Africa. This is achieved by firstly exploring the meaning of ubuntu as a common culture or religion under a large percentage of South Africa’s people over the borders of language and other cultural values. In the second part of the article two concepts that play a major role in Christianity are explored, namely koinonia and diakonia . Again a large percentage of South Africans believe that the Bible is the Word of God in which the right way of living is described. A comparison is made between the core values of ubuntu and the way of living that emerges from the use of the two concepts of koinonia and diakonia in the New Testament. A way that can contribute to reconciliation is suggested from this comparison.

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Ubuntu , koinonia and diakonia , a way to reconciliation in South Africa?

This article investigates the meaning of the diakon word group in the Bible with the focus on the use of this word group in the Gospel of John. John 12:26 is considered in depth. The results of this investigation reveal important differences from other recent research on this word group. The results of the research are then applied to the ministry in congregations.

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The meaning of the diakon word group in John 12:26 applied to the ministry in congregations

The essence and content of a deacon's service revisited
In many congregations, there is great uncertainty about the precise duty of the deacon within the congregation. Nowhere in the Bible is the essence and content of a deacon's service clearly spelled out. The suitability of the Scriptural passages that are often referred to to determine the essence and content of a deacon's work is widely questioned. Through the ages and in various traditions, the deacon has been entrusted with a wide variety of duties. All of the above necessitates a revisitation of the essence and content of the deacon's service. This article aims to extract the applicable aspects of the latest research on the diakon word group and apply its meaning to the work of the deacon within the overall ministry of the congregation. In order to achieve this objective, the applicable findings within research, conducted over the last 20 years, on the diakon word group is provided. Then the traditional Biblical substantiation of the essence and content of the deacon's service is critically reviewed. In conclusion, recommendations are made concerning the meaning of the latest research on the diakon word group for the deacon's service within the overall ministry of the congregation.

Gert Breed

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Welcoming Africa’s children – Theological and ministry perspectives

Theologies of Childhood and the children of Africa

Ubuntu , koinonia and diakonia , a way to reconciliation in South Africa?

The meaning of the diakon word group in John 12:26 applied to the ministry in congregations

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