

The Educational Renaissance Podcast
Educational Renaissance
Promoting a rebirth of ancient wisdom about education for the modern era.
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Jul 17, 2022 • 48min
Capturing Hearts Through the Beauty of Artistry
Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
Today's episode is a recording of a conference talk Jason Barney gave about "Capturing Hearts Through the Beauty of Aristry". He shares the apprenticeship model of teaching with the participants in the room. Jason discusses that, often we aim at the students' heads and not their hearts, and it matters how much they care about what they know, not just worrying about how much they know. He proposes that the route to their hearts is through their hands.
Let's hear how Jason proposes to implement this model in the classroom; feel free to pause for a couple minutes and reflect when Jason has the conference participants reflect.
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Jun 26, 2022 • 18min
Reflections on the ACCS Conference
Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
Today's episode is from the ACCS conference. Jason and Kolby spend some time reflecting on what Jason experienced. Here are the topics:
Leadership in an Age of Anxiety
Socratic Discussion
Book Recommendations
ACCS Scholars Council on Sayers and Gregory
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Jun 19, 2022 • 16min
Reflections from SCL Day 3
Welcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is reflections on Day 3. Some of the topics they discuss:
thoughts on the plenary session by Brian Williams;
praise for Patrick’s presentation; and
book recommendations.
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Jun 18, 2022 • 22min
Reflections from SCL Day 2
Welcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is reflections on Day 2. Some of the topics they discuss:
Thoughts on Justin Bailey's plenary session connecting beauty and apologetics
Comments on Eric Cook's session on relational wisdom
Praise for Kolby's workshop "Equipped to Learn"
Book recommendations
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Jun 17, 2022 • 21min
Reflections from SCL Day 1
Welcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is reflections on Day 1. Some of the topics they discuss:
this year’s theme is “recovering beauty in education”
reflections on Robert George’s is plenary talk on beauty and reality
reflections on Margarita Mooney Suarez’s talk on how classical education is best positioned to address the issues of wokeness, and
book recommendations
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Jun 16, 2022 • 23min
Reflections from the SCL Pre-Conference Day
Welcome to a special session of the Educational Renaissance podcast. Patrick and Kolby are attending the SCL Conference this week and will be sharing their daily reflections. Today's episode is Day 0, or the pre-conference. Some of the topics they discuss:
What it means to be part of an educational renewal movement
The benefits of a conference
Big ideas/take aways from the pre-conference sessions
Book recommendations from today's sessions
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Jun 12, 2022 • 50min
Discipleship in the School
Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, the team discusses the domains of the church and of the academy and where they can and should overlap ... as well as discuss where it may not be a good idea for them overlap. They refine the definitions of teacher and pastor and suggest there should be some distinct boundaries defined by the school.
As a reminder, Educational Renaissance has a bookstore now, you can purchase the books discussed here through this link:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

May 29, 2022 • 57min
Reflections on Christian and Pagan Literature
Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, the team reflects on a topic brought up at a recent Alcuin Retreat, about how to approach Christian and pagan literature. The ponder Tertullian rhetorical questions while pursuing whatever "gold" might be found in pagan writings ... and when one can go too far in embracing non-Christian thought.
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

May 15, 2022 • 30min
Introducing the Educational Renaissance Book Store - Three Book Recommendations
Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, the team introduces the new Educational Renaissance Book Store, where you can purchase the books the team references and recommends. Here is a link to the bookstore:
The Educational Renaissance Bookstore • Educational Renaissance
Today, they discuss three essential books:
An Introduction to Christian Education, by Christopher Perrin
Wisdom and Eloquence, by Robert Littlejohn and Charles Evans
The Liberal Arts Tradition, by Ravi Jain and Kevin Clark
In the comments section, suggest some books you'd recommend for the team to read and/or review.
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Apr 24, 2022 • 18min
Fighting Moral Subjectivism (Insights from The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis)
Welcome to the Educational Renaissance podcast, where we promote a rebirth of ancient wisdom for the modern era. We seek to inspire educators by fusing the best of modern research with the insights of the great philosophers of education. Join us in the great conversation and share with a friend or colleague to keep the renaissance spreading.
In today's episode, Kolby pulls from C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man and other sources to discuss how to train students to fight moral subjectivism through Christian Classical education. This helps children deal with emotive and misleading propaganda. He explores different views through multiple thinkers and concludes with a couple approaches to incorporate into teaching young minds to prepare them to be able "... to hold logic, emotion, and beauty together."
Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music