Welcome to Episode 21 of Season 4 with Samuel Rocha on “Dilexit Mundum: A Christian Education and the Love of the World”  the keynote Lecture of Samuel Rocha given on May 2, 2025 in Vancouver, B.C. at the CCE Promise of Christian Education: Past, Present, and Future conference in Vancouver.

Dr. Sam Rocha is Professor of philosophy of education at UBC where he was awarded the Killam Teaching Prize at UBC in 2019.  Sam is the author of a number of books, including A Primer for Philosophy and Education with Cascade Books, which won the American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Book Award in 2015. His newest book, The Syllabus as Curriculum: A Reconceptualist Approach, was published in 2020 and received the same year’s Outstanding Book Award from AERA: Division B, Curriculum Studies.

Please enjoy Sam’s lecture!

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