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“I
just want to get better at what I do.”
— Singer/songwriter Kate Campbell
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Purpose
The
purpose of the SICS at DBU is a professional development program
with one primary goal in mind: to help DBU faculty and administrators
get better at what they do! The SICS “fellows” meet
for ten weeks in the summer on Thursday mornings from 8:30 am until
12:00 noon. The sessions consist of an opening lecture followed
by intensive discussion of the text under consideration for that
day. Each fellow receives a $2000.00 stipend to participate in the
seminar as well as all the books and handouts that comprise the
seminar curriculum. Dr. David Naugle leads the class. Here’s
what the SICS is all about:
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- An
intensive reading of a variety of classic and contemporary books
on the Western and Christian educational traditions (Plato, Augustine,
Luther, Milton, Newman, Lewis, and others).
- In-depth
discussions of this literature with colleagues in a seminar context
where significant ideas about scholarship, teaching and learning
are the focus of attention.
- Developing
an understanding of a biblical worldview at a deeper level and
exploring its implications for Christian higher education.
- Defining
and refining an overall philosophy of Christian education that
provides a vision for scholarship, teaching, learning, and working
with students.
- Writing
and presenting a scholarly paper in the Friday Symposium as a
way of sharing the results of your reading and thinking with the
DBU community.
- Participating
in a spiritual and learning community comprised of DBU colleagues
who are encouraging and supporting each another in their efforts
as Christian scholars and educators.
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SICS
Reading List:
- Albert
Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational
Worldview
- Alexander
Schmemann, For the Life of the World
- J.
Gresham Machen, “Christianity and Culture”
- Plato,
Republic, books, 2, 3, 7
- Augustine,
De Doctrina Christiana
- Dorothy
Sayers, “Lost Tools of Learning”
- Martin
Luther, “To All The City Councilmen of Germany That They
Establish and Maintain Christian Schools”
- John
Milton, “Of Education”
- Leland
Ryken, “The Puritan Vision of Education”
- John
Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
- C.
S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man; “Learning in Wartime”
and “On the
Reading of Old Books”
- J.
L. Menuge, “Just Sentiments” (on The Abolition
of Man)
- Mark
Schwehn, Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation
in America
- Max
Weber, “Scholarship as Calling”
- Parker
Palmer, To Know as We are Known: A Spirituality of Education
- Mars
Hill Audio Report: “The Life and Thought of Michael Polanyi”
- Steven
Garber, The Fabric of Faithfulness
- Neal
Plantinga, Engaging God’s World
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