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Foundations of education : a Christian vision / edited by Matthew Etherington ; with a foreword by Edwin Boyce.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock Publishers, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781630873042
  • 1630873047
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Foundations of educationDDC classification:
  • 261.5 23
LOC classification:
  • LB1027.223 .F68 2014
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Intro; Title Page; Foreword -- Dr. Edwin Boyce; Introduction; Contributors; 1. The Christian Roots of Public Schooling in North America -- Harro Van Brummelen; 2. Christian Educators Who Made an Impact: Comenius and His ""School as a Forging Place of Humanity"" -- Jan Hábl; 3. Christian Women and Their Influence on Education: The Contributions of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Addams, Lois LeBar, and Nel Noddings -- Allyson Jule; 4. Christianity and Special Education: The Concern for the Blind and the Deaf -- Matthew Etherington; 5. Religion and the Science Classroom -- Arnold E. Sikkema
6. Educating for Faithful Presence -- June Hetzel and Tim Stranske7. Educating for the Good Life -- Perry L. Glanzer; 8. Evangelism in the Classroom -- Elmer John Thiessen; 9. The Peculiar Hope of the Educator -- Nicholas Wolterstoff; 10. Truth, Traditional Teaching, and Constructivism -- Rev. Keith Mitchell; 11. Education for What Matters: Aims for Christian Schooling -- Ted Newell; 12. Faith in the Humanities -- Karen Swallow Prior; 13. School Choice and Church School Education in the United Kingdom -- Elizabeth Green; 14. The Global Electric Republic -- Teaching the Timeless in the Digital Age
15. Religion, Secularity, and Education: On Not Taking Things for Granted -- Doug Blomberg16. Walking Humbly, Listening Compassionately and Living Justly: A Way Forward in Our Relations with Aboriginal Peoples in Canada -- David Long and William Van Arragon; 17. Educating for Public Life -- Angus Brook; 18. The School as Community: Learning for Service in an Era of Educational Narcissism -- Stephen Fyson
Summary: Ideas about education have consequences. This book, edited by Matthew Etherington, provides readers with ideas and insights drawn from fifteen international scholars in Christian thought within the fields of philosophy, theology, and education. Each author responds to the philosophical, historical, and sociological challenges that confront their particular line of educational inquiry. The authors offer a view of Christian education that promotes truth, human dignity, peace, love, diversity, and justice. The book critically analyzes public discourse on education, including the wisdom, actions, recommendations, and controversies of Christian education in the twenty-first century. This timely book will appeal to those concerned with Christian perspectives on education, Aboriginality, gender, history, evangelism, secularism, constructivism, purpose, hope, school choice, and community.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)834172

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Intro; Title Page; Foreword -- Dr. Edwin Boyce; Introduction; Contributors; 1. The Christian Roots of Public Schooling in North America -- Harro Van Brummelen; 2. Christian Educators Who Made an Impact: Comenius and His ""School as a Forging Place of Humanity"" -- Jan Hábl; 3. Christian Women and Their Influence on Education: The Contributions of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Addams, Lois LeBar, and Nel Noddings -- Allyson Jule; 4. Christianity and Special Education: The Concern for the Blind and the Deaf -- Matthew Etherington; 5. Religion and the Science Classroom -- Arnold E. Sikkema

6. Educating for Faithful Presence -- June Hetzel and Tim Stranske7. Educating for the Good Life -- Perry L. Glanzer; 8. Evangelism in the Classroom -- Elmer John Thiessen; 9. The Peculiar Hope of the Educator -- Nicholas Wolterstoff; 10. Truth, Traditional Teaching, and Constructivism -- Rev. Keith Mitchell; 11. Education for What Matters: Aims for Christian Schooling -- Ted Newell; 12. Faith in the Humanities -- Karen Swallow Prior; 13. School Choice and Church School Education in the United Kingdom -- Elizabeth Green; 14. The Global Electric Republic -- Teaching the Timeless in the Digital Age

15. Religion, Secularity, and Education: On Not Taking Things for Granted -- Doug Blomberg16. Walking Humbly, Listening Compassionately and Living Justly: A Way Forward in Our Relations with Aboriginal Peoples in Canada -- David Long and William Van Arragon; 17. Educating for Public Life -- Angus Brook; 18. The School as Community: Learning for Service in an Era of Educational Narcissism -- Stephen Fyson

Ideas about education have consequences. This book, edited by Matthew Etherington, provides readers with ideas and insights drawn from fifteen international scholars in Christian thought within the fields of philosophy, theology, and education. Each author responds to the philosophical, historical, and sociological challenges that confront their particular line of educational inquiry. The authors offer a view of Christian education that promotes truth, human dignity, peace, love, diversity, and justice. The book critically analyzes public discourse on education, including the wisdom, actions, recommendations, and controversies of Christian education in the twenty-first century. This timely book will appeal to those concerned with Christian perspectives on education, Aboriginality, gender, history, evangelism, secularism, constructivism, purpose, hope, school choice, and community.