The next wave of education reform will require both the right and the left to let go of some long-held premises about education policy. Conservatives will need to see, for instance, that local control and funding are no panacea; that the difference between more private-school … Read More →
Category Archives: Education
Faithful Philosophy: Thoughts on Wolterstorff & Philosophy in the Reformed Tradition
Nicholas Wolterstorff is a philosopher who works seek to understand human activity in light of his particular Worldview: that of Creation, Fall and Redemption. In other words, Wolterstorff seeks to understand the everyday ramifications of the answers his faith content brings to questions of existence, … Read More →
Faulkner on Formal Education
Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive Here you can listen in on William Faulkner’s sessions with audiences at the University of Virginia in 1957 and 1958, during his two terms as UVA’s first Writer-in-Residence. Hear Faulkner talk about the value of Formal Education on the … Read More →
On Civic Education
I have not yet read Os Guinness’ The Case for Civility. However, some statements given in an interview with byFaith Magazine are worthy of consideration: I’m curious, how would you evaluate Christians’ involvement in American public education? I think Christians are careless about public education … Read More →
Schools Logically Qualified
As Basden notes, Dooyeweerd did not elaborate much on learning and education. One problem is that Dooyeweerd himself did not seem to discuss learning. The word ‘Learning’ does not appear in his index, and ‘Education’ only three times, all within the context of his discussion … Read More →
Fit for a Republic: Education as Domestication
Public Schools are quintessentially American. Attending public school is probably the most important common experience undergone by people all over our diverse country. Today education advocates often argue that good schools enable us to compete globally; in his day, Benjamin Franklin also thought that education … Read More →
Do we need a Christian university?
This question does haunt me. But it does beg the question: What is a Christian University? I think the best answer may be: What we need are Pluralist Spaces which promotes healthy scholarly activity, informed and critical of it’s pre-theoretical origins. Such a Space would … Read More →
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Schools as “Faithful Institutions”?
Read Jonathon Chaplin’s Loving Faithful Institutions: Building Blocks of a Just Global Society and then help think with me about Schools. Photo: [View of a Pine Crest School student reading in the library Fort Lauderdale, Florida]
Toward a Theory of the Structure of Educational Entities
How do we conceive of Educational Entities? When is an entity a School, a College, or a University, and not a business or a charity? Are Educational Entities, the organizations we create to facilitate educational practices, a unique entity? Or are Educational Entities a part, … Read More →
Intraevangelical Debate: Warfield vs Kuyper
If we look at this evangelical renaissance as an intellectual movement, one theme overshadows all others. In virtually every field the principal interaevangelical debate has been the same: Do evangelical Christian scholars pursue their science or discipline differently from the way secularists do? By now … Read More →