Dr. Samuel D. Rocha

Professor of Educational Studies
University of British Columbia

DILEXIT MUNDUM: A CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND THE LOVE OF THE WORLD

Sic Deus dilexit mundum.” What is a Christian education? Sam Rocha will argue for a Christian education in light of the love of the world we encounter in John’s gospel. His argument will describe an evangelical idea of Christian education that is critical of approaches that reject and even seem to hate the world that God so loves.

Biography

Dr. Rocha was promoted to Associate Professor and awarded the Killam Teaching Prize at UBC in 2019. At the end of 2019, he released his third full-length album, Anamnesis, and in 2020 he released a single, “The Freedom of Dialectic,” inspired by the life and thought of Maxine Greene. 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.