Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-2025
Abstract
While textual excavation mainstreams biblical scholarship, studies on biblical pedagogies for social justice have also proliferated. In Activism, Bible, and Research-based Teaching (2024), the contributors expound on their biblical research and activism in areas of disability studies, gender-sexuality, community grounding and university pedagogies, Judaeophobia, climate change, etc. Although the book mentioned sustainable development, there is no discussion yet of “education for sustainable development”. In this study, I will briefly present the debate on education for sustainability (EfS), especially in relation to faith-based organizations, including educational institutions. Next, I will delve into the participative, community-based methodology of service-learning and its limits, and how the Scriptures can enrich EfS. Finally, I will exemplify the pedagogical benefits for exegetes-theologians of service-learning through a community-based co-learning project that I am doing with an urban poor people’s organization and the importance of Scriptures in their servant-leadership motivations to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Recommended Citation
Ibita, M. M. S. (2025, June 23–27). Service-learning for teachers/exegetes: A postcolonial avenue for biblical sustainability education [Conference presentation]. Joint International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS), University of Uppsala, Sweden. ArchIum Ateneo.
