Description
Instructions
- Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
- Read “Three Tests for Determining Truth” by Brent Cunningham.
- Review the Worldview Comparison Chart.
- Navigate to the threaded discussion and respond to three of the following four discussion questions/prompts:
- Describe the three sets of questions Pearcey describes to ask of a worldview, including Christianity. Identify them and explain in general how can you use them to assess the worldview of a theory, ideology or religion?
- Explain how a Christian worldview might impact one’s ideas about family or education as described by Pearcey. What thoughts do you have in response?
- Summarize Pearcey’s evaluation of one of the following theories based on the components of a worldview (Marxism, Rouseau, Sanger or Buddhism). Describe an insight you gained from assessing the theory through a worldview lens.
- Finally, discuss how you can use a worldview approach to evaluate theories underlying practice or policy interventions as a social worker? Also, how can this approach help you to work with clients, families or groups to evaluate their underlying religious or worldview assumptions and their ethical implications? Explain.
- Your initial post is due by the end of the fourth day of the workshop.