Empowering Hybrid Agency in Christian Education

A Postcolonial and Poststructural Approach

Moon Jung Choi (Author)

Empowering Hybrid Agency in Christian Education

A Postcolonial and Poststructural Approach

Moon Jung Choi (Author)

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Taking a critical perspective on agency as a potent birthright, examined through the stories of others, this book closes the vast theoretical and practical divide between our perceptions of external power and the power everyone holds.

However small we may feel, the agency within every single one of us is a greatly undermined and underappreciated power that can change the world for better or worse. Presenting narratives of diverse individuals and marginalized people, this book asks the reader to reflect on how they use their own inherent power in their daily lives, community, faith, and social and cultural contexts. As both influencers and followers of our societal, religious and cultural norms and the perceived world around us, we re/create new norms in our own right, while at the same time un/consciously allowing ourselves to be subservient to existing and prevalent norms around us.

Agency, as explored by Dr. Moon Jung Choi throughout this book, bestows upon us the power of choice, action, and reformation. Through theoretical and contextual explorations in the fields of theology, philosophy, and psychology, this book works to identify critical and unexplored areas of agency as the means of passionately engaging our individual and collective will to transform our perspective and the norms of our time. Out of a myriad of choices, we can choose/act to be destructive, opt for maintaining the status quo, or decide to use our power to bring about profound transformation. With its accessible language and memorable analogies, both biblical and contemporary, this book shines a light on the power of our agency with practical and theoretical suggestions to ensure readers have a guided pathway to a new future.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A New Star on Stage
1. Our Socio-Cultural Pressures: Disciplinary Powers and the Individual
2. Rediscovering Our Strength and Weakness: Agency and Pedagogy
3. In Search of Ourselves and a New World: Hybridity of Agency
4. Dialogue at the Well: Pedagogy of Conscientization for Empowering Agency
Conclusion: A Call to Your Stage
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Product details

Published	Feb 19 2026
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	144
ISBN	9781978717282
Imprint	Fortress Academic
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Moon Jung Choi

Moon Jung Choi, PhD, is a Christian educator and p…

Living in a world of “principalities and powers” that focus, limit, and define a person's identity, how do we as teachers seek to support, encourage, and help persons claim their faith identity and their vocation. Using her own context as a Canadian Christian woman, Moon Jung Choi offers us a pedagogical way grounded in cultural analysis, Scripture, and liberative pedagogy. This book is an important and accessible contribution to the conversation about Christian education and Christian teaching.

Jack L. Seymour, Professor Emeritus, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, US
By interweaving the story of the Samaritan woman with the voices of Korean Canadian Christian women and exploring the concept of hybrid agency through the lens of postcolonial and poststructural perspectives, this book offers a vision of Christian education rooted in transformative agency. It masterfully integrates women's personal narratives, real-life metaphors, critical pedagogy, and biblical story. A timely and inspiring contribution that reimagines faith formation for a post-era world!

Shin-Geun Jang, Professor of Christian Education, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, South Korea
Choi has brought together a diverse array of theoretical voices – a tapestry of Korean scholars as well as Freire and Foucault – to ground her powerful articulation of a pedagogy of conscientization for empowering the agency of marginalized women. Through compelling and specific stories of Korean Canadian women, Choi offers a unique view of hybrid agency of the self which includes (1) multiplicity and overlap, (2) resilience and transformation, (3) sin, and (4) freedom of choice. In doing so she serves wider and more diverse communities and thus offers everyone seeking to do Christian education in a plural world a way into liberating and empowering learning.

Mary E. Hess, Professor of Educational Leadership, Luther Seminary, US
This book is an important contribution to the landscape of practical theology in Canada and beyond. By foregrounding the experiences of Korean Canadian Christian women, Choi describes with deep care and compassion the lived reality of marginalization and mines the Christian tradition for glimpses of hope-filled empowerment. Her pedagogy of conscientization offers a daring vision of Christian education that is pregnant with possibilities for liberation for oppressed and oppressor alike.

David M. Csinos, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Atlantic School of Theology, Canada