The ReEnchantment of Learning Symposium
April 6, 2024
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The ReEnchantment of Learning:
Catholic Education ReImagined
In 2009 Stratford Caldecott the director of the Centre for Faith and Culture in Oxford, wrote Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the ReEnchantment of Education in which he summarized three foundational points towards this project for the renewal of Catholic learning:
1) Contemporary education tends toward fragmentation and the elimination of meaning, except in the sense of a meaning that we impose by force upon the world.
2) An education for meaning would begin with an attention to form, gestalt, beauty, interiority, relationship, radiance, and purpose. This “re-enchantment” of education would open our eyes to the meaning and beauty of the cosmos and our place in it.
3) Education begins in the family & ends in the Trinity. Praise (of beauty), service (of goodness), and contemplation (of truth) are essential to the full expression of our humanity. The cosmos is liturgical by its very nature.
Caldecott inspired a movement and a number of new educational initiatives have begun that aim for the Re-Enchantment of Education.
Please join us to hear from three educational innovators who are practitioners of ReEnchanted Education and how the reEnchantment of learning is central to the effort to restoring the sacred to Catholic learning.
● Daniel Kerr - St. Martin’s Academy
The ReEnchantment of the Cosmos
● Peter Searby - Riverside Center
The ReEnchantment of Boyhood
● Michael Sullivan - The Sanctuary Academy
The ReEnchantment of Identity & Vocation
Agenda
APRIL 6, 2024
8:30
Holy Mass at St. John Cantius
9:30
Registration & Coffee
10:00
Welcome & Introduction
10:15
Daniel Kerr - The ReEnchantment of the Cosmos
11:15
Peter Searby - The ReEnchantment of Boyhood
12:15
Lunch
12:45
Michael Sullivan - The ReEnchantment of Identity & Vocation
1:45
Panel Q&A
2:30
Conclusion
The Speakers
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EDUCATIONAL INNOVATORS
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Educational Visionary Entrepreneur
Daniel Kerr
President & Co-Founder of St. Martin's Academy, Healer of the Imagination
Daniel Kerr is the President and co-founder of Saint Martin’s Academy, a Catholic boarding school for boys in Fort Scott, Kansas, that combines classical academics with a practical work program on a sustainable farm that adjoins the Kerr family property. Based on the educational vision of John Senior, Saint Martin's seeks to "heal the imagination" by connecting boys with what is real. He is also the founder of the The Prairie Troubadour, an annual symposium in honor of his father, Dr. Gerald Kerr. Daniel and his wife Katie and their six children live on his family’s farm.
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Peter Searby
Founder of Riverside Club for Adventure & Imagination, Author of Casting Fire
Peter Searby was raised in Northern Virginia during a time before suburbia had encroached too much upon the wild beauty of the region and kids didn't have to go too far to find a landscape for imaginative journeys into the world of Indiana Jones or the Jedi Knights.
Peter's creative mind felt imprisoned in the schools he attended; he was restless, resentful and constantly in trouble. His experiences with education both as a student and later as a teacher, left him driven to craft a platform for education based on adventurous and imaginative learning.
Peter Searby has a creative mind and an educator's heart. The restlessness he felt as a boy, boxed into a desk in a classroom, carried over into adulthood and morphed into a general dissatisfaction with the educational system. And so, in 2013, he co-founded the Riverside Club for Adventure and Imagination in order to help boys in particular, live a more imaginative and adventurous childhood and discover their creative gift.
Author of Casting Fire: A Guide to the Adventure and Imagination of Boyhood.
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Visionary World Maker
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Prophetic Visionary
Michael Sullivan
Co-Founder of The Sanctuary Academy
Michael is the co-Founder & Headmaster of The Sanctuary Academy, a new model of Catholic K-12 education that promises that every child will "find a calling that will change the world." In The Sanctuary the learners enter a great story where good and evil clash in an epic battle and only they, the Hero, can save the day by going on a quest!
The Sanctuary Academy is the unique Catholic Expression of the Acton Academy model rooted in a deep Catholic anthropology of human freedom and virtue.
The vision of the Sanctuary Academy is the restoration of the sacred to education through a re-enchantment of learning for a great Catholic awakening.
He is the co-founder of the Kolbe Children's Business Fair, the first Catholic Children's Business Fair; and the Beautiful Way Sacred Arts Camp.
He is married to Kelly and they have eight children, ten hens, one rooster, and three fish.
The Venue
St. John Cantius Parish Hall
The ReEnchantment of Learning conference will be held at St. John Cantius Parish Hall. Attendees will be able to participate with other like-minded individuals who are passionate about re-enchanting education for the renewal of Catholic faith and culture.
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