LIVING MULTIPLICITY COURAGEOUSLY
ENCOURAGEMENTS IN A PLANETARY AND MIGRANT WORLD
Keywords:
God-given WE, Pope Francis, Ruth C. Cohn, Theme-centered Interaction (TCI), Living LearningAbstract
The challenges for learning and teaching in the context of the pandemic and migration concern above all the WE of learners and teachers. Is it - especially in religious learning - about a WE that potentially excludes others/foreigners, or is it about the diverse and open WE of all people that Pope Francis keeps reminding us of. His idea of the God-given WE, which includes all people without exception, touches in many respects on the ideas of the German-Jewish social therapist Ruth C. Cohn (19122010), who saw herself as a “planetary citizen” and who discovered the concept of Living Learning (Theme-Centred Interaction) in the 1960s in American exile, which is still widely recognised today in different countries and cultures.
