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Produced in cooperation with the Alcuin Fellowship, this pre-conference track is intended to strengthen and sharpen our schools’ academic leadership with an annual focus on a particular theme. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, collaborate, and refine best practices with classical educators from around the country.
Pre-conference | Wednesday, June 24 | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Join us in the evening for the Leader’s Day reception!
If one of the goals of Christian Classical education is to instill the love of wisdom, what does it mean to take the love of wisdom (philosophia) as something that ranges across the disciplines? Although few schools have the capacity to maintain designated philosophy courses, most have a wide variety of courses that would be deepened by direct engagement with wisdom questions. But what does the pursuit of wisdom across the curriculum look like? How are we to recognize wisdom questions when we find them? How can such questions be addressed productively? What does the pursuit of wisdom look like in conversation? What does it look like on paper?
This workshop draws on readings from Socrates and Thomas Aquinas to answer these questions. The first goal of the workshop is to introduce educators to a time-tested pattern for raising wisdom questions in any classroom context, a form known as the disputatio (or “disputed question”). The second goal is to provide practice in using the disputatio in a variety of classroom exercises and writing assignments. Both educators and students find that learning to use the disputatio serves to integrate and deepen many of the formative benefits of a classical Christian education.
Produced in cooperation with the Alcuin Fellowship, this pre-conference track is intended to strengthen and sharpen our schools’ academic leadership with an annual focus on a particular theme. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, collaborate, and refine best practices with classical educators from around the country.
Pre-conference | Wednesday, June 24 | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Join us in the evening for the Leader’s Day reception!
If one of the goals of Christian Classical education is to instill the love of wisdom, what does it mean to take the love of wisdom (philosophia) as something that ranges across the disciplines? Although few schools have the capacity to maintain designated philosophy courses, most have a wide variety of courses that would be deepened by direct engagement with wisdom questions. But what does the pursuit of wisdom across the curriculum look like? How are we to recognize wisdom questions when we find them? How can such questions be addressed productively? What does the pursuit of wisdom look like in conversation? What does it look like on paper?
This workshop draws on readings from Socrates and Thomas Aquinas to answer these questions. The first goal of the workshop is to introduce educators to a time-tested pattern for raising wisdom questions in any classroom context, a form known as the disputatio (or “disputed question”). The second goal is to provide practice in using the disputatio in a variety of classroom exercises and writing assignments. Both educators and students find that learning to use the disputatio serves to integrate and deepen many of the formative benefits of a classical Christian education.
