How can we revitalize culture through education? Can religious metaphor play a role in education?

1. Natural Selection,
Natural Wisdom?
Evolution, Culture and Education

2. Created co-creator: Metaphore 4 Education?
To be educated = To become created co-creator?

3. Narrative Analysis of
‘Created Co-Creator’
• 5 Elements:
• Original Situation Before
the Crisis
• (past)
• Situation After the Crisis
• (past)
• Reality of the Crisis
• (present)
• Reality of the Solution
• (present)
• Solution
• (future)

4. Evolution, Culture, and Education
With or Without God?

5. Revitalising Metaphor
• Could we see
education as
unveiling the image
of God?
• What about scientific
study of Homo
sapiens?

6. Connecting
• Human-Nature
• Levels of Reality?

7. One Problem, Two Questions
• Created Co-Creator: With or Without God?
• Did we lose the ability to read the signs of our cultural universe?
• Can we still give myth and metaphor a viable place in our
world?
• If so: would a multi-layered perspective on reality be useful?

8. Supporting Institutions:

9. Credits Images
• Slide 2: The Touch of
God, http://www.flickr.com/photos/justin_case/6076672122/
sizes/l/in/photostream/
• Slide 3: Building Blocks Library
Macros, http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/559711
1652/
• Slide 4: Family
Treed, http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbratl/4765889169/sizes
/l/in/photostream/
• Slide 5: Think Outside The
Box, http://www.flickr.com/photos/martyportier/4656059096
/sizes/l/in/photostream/
• Slide 6: Land Art: Thematic
Oppositions, http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiseb/24525977/