"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.