Jude Butcher
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JUDE BUTCHER cfc, AM, is Director, Institute for Advancing Community Engagement and Professor of Community Engagement at Australian Catholic University. Previously he has been Head of School of Education for more than 30 years. Jude’s areas of study include community engagement, capacity building, social justice and education, and teachers’ professional development. He has been involved in Indigenous education for 28 years and in educational capacity building in East Timor for almost fourteen years. In 2010 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Education.
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About Jude's Keynote:
The Year of Mercy and Trans formative Community Engagement
Pope Francis challenges us in the Year of Mercy to engage drawing upon our fragility and gifts. Archbishop Welby challenges us "to work for justice and seek truth in the light of God's mercy and peace."
Participating in God’s action to make all things new, how do we heed these challenges and:
• Engage from an attitude of mercy not arrogance;
• Accompany people in brokenness and disenfranchisement;
• Heed people’s wisdom and mercy;
• Envision shared community engagement;
• Commit to engaging beyond disadvantage; and
• Challenge dominant attitudes and practices.
Implementing these principles will be discussed in terms of mercy and transformative community engagement.
Pope Francis challenges us in the Year of Mercy to engage drawing upon our fragility and gifts. Archbishop Welby challenges us "to work for justice and seek truth in the light of God's mercy and peace."
Participating in God’s action to make all things new, how do we heed these challenges and:
• Engage from an attitude of mercy not arrogance;
• Accompany people in brokenness and disenfranchisement;
• Heed people’s wisdom and mercy;
• Envision shared community engagement;
• Commit to engaging beyond disadvantage; and
• Challenge dominant attitudes and practices.
Implementing these principles will be discussed in terms of mercy and transformative community engagement.
| butcher_jude_slides.pdf |
| yearofmercytransformativecommunityengagement150416.pdf |
