Saint Paul and the Education Encounter

Michael Victory is an Australian educator working in the field of teacher education. He is both practitioner and researcher, having taught in secondary schools (12-18 years olds), adult vocational education, and lectured in the discipline of education leadership. He is the Executive Officer of the Teacher Learning Network, Australia’s leading independent online professional development institute.He is committed to dialogic education and creating education encounters that allow for the development of the whole person. Taking inspiration from the Clandinin and Connelly, three-dimensional model of Narrative Inquiry, Michael has investigated narrative as a key driver of pedagogy. In his recent research, he has brought together his interest in the role of narrative in the education encounter with an interest in New Testament studies. 

1. Introduction - Re-conceptualizing Paul as the first educator of the first millennium.- 2. Understanding event and its possibility.- 3. Ekklēsia – education communities that respond to an event.- 4. relationships at the foundation of an event.- 5. Pedagogy of the event as an evolving pedagogy.- 6. Pedagogy of the event as a new ethic for educators.