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TAGS: Capacity building; Curriculum; Education; Empowerment; Moral education; Religion (general); Science
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On the central goal of education and how it can address our evolving need to learn about both the physical and social world at a time when knowledge and information are accumulating at such an incredible pace.
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Article mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/226. See also the complete issue [PDF].

A Reading of Sona Farid-Arbab's Moral Empowerment: In Quest of a Pedagogy

by Gerald Filson

published in Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 28:3, pages 87-106
Ottawa: Association for Bahá'í Studies North America, 2018
About: 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?
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