Educational Renaissance
by Educational RenaissanceEducational wisdom fusing the best of modern research with the ancient philosophers of education.
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Episodes
Reflections from SCL Day 2
21m · PublishedWelcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is reflections on Day 2. Some of the topics they discuss:
- Thoughts on Justin Bailey's plenary session connecting beauty and apologetics
- Comments on Eric Cook's session on relational wisdom
- Praise for Kolby's workshop "Equipped to Learn"
- Book recommendations
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Reflections from SCL Day 1
20m · PublishedWelcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is reflections on Day 1. Some of the topics they discuss:
- this year’s theme is “recovering beauty in education”
- reflections on Robert George’s is plenary talk on beauty and reality
- reflections on Margarita Mooney Suarez’s talk on how classical education is best positioned to address the issues of wokeness, and
- book recommendations
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Reflections from the SCL Pre-Conference Day
23m · PublishedWelcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is Day 0, or the pre-conference. Some of the topics they discuss:
- What it means to be part of an educational renewal movement
- The benefits of a conference
- Big ideas/take aways from the pre-conference sessions
- Book recommendations from today's sessions
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Discipleship in the School
50m · PublishedWelcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, the team discusses the domains of the church and of the academy and where they can and should overlap ... as well as discuss where it may not be a good idea for them overlap. They refine the definitions of teacher and pastor and suggest there should be some distinct boundaries defined by the school.
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Reflections on Christian and Pagan Literature
56m · PublishedWelcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, the team reflects on a topic brought up at a recent Alcuin Retreat, about how to approach Christian and pagan literature. The ponder Tertullian rhetorical questions while pursuing whatever "gold" might be found in pagan writings ... and when one can go too far in embracing non-Christian thought.
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Introducing the Educational Renaissance Book Store - Three Book Recommendations
30m · PublishedWelcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, the team introduces the new Educational Renaissance Book Store, where you can purchase the books the team references and recommends. Here is a link to the bookstore:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Today, they discuss three essential books:
- An Introduction to Christian Education, by Christopher Perrin
- Wisdom and Eloquence, by Robert Littlejohn and Charles Evans
- The Liberal Arts Tradition, by Ravi Jain and Kevin Clark
In the comments section, suggest some books you'd recommend for the team to read and/or review.
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Fighting Moral Subjectivism (Insights from The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis)
18m · PublishedWelcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, Kolby pulls from C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man and other sources to discuss how to train students to fight moral subjectivism through Christian Classical education. This helps children deal with emotive and misleading propaganda. He explores different views through multiple thinkers and concludes with a couple approaches to incorporate into teaching young minds to prepare them to be able "... to hold logic, emotion, and beauty together."
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
An Interview with Jason Barney
49m · Published*** The Educational Renaissance podcast has moved to publishing the middle and end of the month. ***
Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, the team wraps up the "get to know the team" series by interviewing Jason Barney. Listen in as they explore Jason's beginnings in public school in San Fransisco, how one teacher in particular influenced Jason's future high school and college choices and learn how a single passage from the book of Jeremiah convinced him he had to get into classical Christian education.
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Measuring the Greatness of Schools
14m · Published*** The Educational Renaissance podcast is moving to a publishing schedule of the middle of the month and end of the month. ***
Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, Kolby explores the concepts shared by Jim Collins in his books around Good to Great as they apply to schools. He shares the 7 characteristics of great companies and explores the 5 that schools struggle to implement. He finishes by exploring of the 5 struggles and offers suggestions to overcome this hurdle.
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Training the Arts versus Teaching Science
20m · Published*** The Educational Renaissance podcast is moving to a publishing schedule of the middle of the month and end of the month. ***
Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, Jason dives into the distinction between training the arts and teaching science by exploring the thoughts of Plato and John Milton Gregory ... two distinctly different thinkers about teaching. The discussion helps teachers distinguish between when they are training students in an art and teaching them a subject.
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Educational Renaissance has 112 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 60:11:30. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 23rd 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 24th, 2024 21:41.