The Gift of the Stranger: Faith, Hospitality, and Foreign Language Learning

by David I. Smith, Barbara Carvill

Overview

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802847089
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/20/2000
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

David I. Smith is director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning, coordinator of the De Vries Institute for Global Faculty Development, and professor of education at Calvin University. In 2024, he won Calvin University’s Presidential Award for Exemplary Teaching. He has published extensively on Christian education and the relationship between faith and pedagogy; his books include On Christian Teaching: Practicing Faith in the Classroom, Learning from the Stranger: Christian Faith and Cultural Diversity, and Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to Practicing Faith in the Classroom.

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Ron Wells
Acknowledgments
Introduction

I. Background: Setting the Stage

1. From Babel to Pentecost
2. Beginnings: Early Christian Contributions to Foreign Language Education
3. Broadening Horizons: From Luther to Comenius

II. Aims: Embracing the Stranger

4. Strangers and Blessings
5. Hospitality to the Stranger
6. For Profit, Pleasure, and Power?

III. Practice: Implications for the Classroom

7. Images of Others, Images of God: The Content of the Foreign Language Course
8. Faith and Method
9. Two Case Studies: Curran’s Community Language Learning and Kramsch’s Critical Foreign Language Pedagogy
10. Samples from a Curriculum Project

Epilogue
Appendix: Interpreting Babel
Select Bibliography
Index