A comprehensive source that demonstrates how 21st century Christianity can interrelate with current educational trends and aspirations
The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education provides a resource for students and scholars interested in the most important issues, trends, and developments in the relationship between Christianity and education. It offers a historical understanding of these two intertwined subjects with a view to creating a context for the myriad issues that characterize - and challenge - the relationship between Christianity and education today.
Presented in three parts, the book starts with thought-provoking essays covering major issues in Christian education such as the movement away from God in American education; the Christian paradigm based on love and character vs. academic industrial models of American education; why religion is good for society, offenders, and prisons; the resurgence of vocational exploration and its integrative potential for higher education; and more. It then looks at Christianity and education around the globe - faith-based schooling in a pluralistic democracy; religious expectations in the Latino home; church-based and community-centered higher education; etc. The third part examines how humanity is determining the relationship between Christianity and education with chapters covering the use of Christian paradigm of living and learning; enrollment, student demographic, and capacity trends in Christian schools after the introduction of private schools; empirical studies on the perceptions of intellectual diversity at elite universities in the US; and more.
- Provides the breadth and depth of knowledge necessary to gain a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the complex relationship between Christianity and education and its place in contemporary society
- A long overdue assessment of the subject, one that takes into account the enormous changes in Christian education
- Presents a global consideration of the subject
- Examines Christian education across elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels
The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education will be of great interest to Christian educators in the academic world, the teaching profession, the ministry, and the college and graduate level student body.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Part I Major Issues in Christian Education 3
1 The Movement Away from God in American Education 5
Kenneth Calvert, Hillsdale College
2 The Two Biological Parent Family, Christianity, and Economic Prosperity 43
William Jeynes, California State University, Long Beach and the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton
3 The Christian PastoralÂ]Artisanal vs. Academic Industrial Models of Education in America 67
David W. Robinson, George Fox University
4 Engaging Questions of Purpose: The Resurgence of Vocational Exploration and Its Integrative Potential for Higher Education 95
Michelle C. Louis, Azusa Pacific University
5 Why Religion and Religious Freedom is Good for Society, Offenders, and Prisons 119
Byron R. Johnson, Baylor University
6 The Integration of Faith Tradition and Teaching in Christian Higher Education 141
Perry L. Glanzer, Baylor University and Nathan F. Alleman, Baylor University
7 A Christian Mentoring Program for Character Education of African American Teens and Young Adults from Detroit 165
Lou Selzer, Metro Detroit
8 Character Education Traced Throughout American History 201
Jamie Kay Jakubowski-Tungyoo, California State University, Long Beach and William Jeynes, California State University, Long Beach and the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton
9 Publicly Funded Charter Schools with Religious Ties 233
Daniel Hamlin, University of Toronto and Harvard University
Part II Christianity and Education Around the Globe 257
10 FaithÂ]based Schooling in a Pluralistic Democracy 259
Charles L. Glenn, Boston University
11 The Teaching of the Holocaust in American Evangelical Christian Schools 279
William Jeynes, California State University, Long Beach and the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton
12 Learned Piety in a Place of Freedom: A Brief History of Liberal Education in Europe, 1200-2000 297
Fred W. Beuttler, University of Chicago
13 Religious Liberty and Educational Pluralism: Abraham Kuyper’s Principled Advocacy of School Choice 325
Wendy Naylor, University of Chicago
14 Christianity and Education: A Brazilian Perspective 355
Paulo Romeiro, MacKenzie University, Brazil
15 Latinx Parental Expectations in the Home: Educación and the Assets of Religiosity, Family, and Community 365
Daniel D. Liou, Arizona State University, Eric Ambroso, Arizona State University, and Rene Antrop-González, Metropolitan State University Minnesota
16 ChurchÂ]based and CommunityÂ]centered Higher Education: Case Study of an Alternative Strategy for Delivering FaithÂ]based General Education to the Poor Around the World 381
Robert Osburn, Wilberforce Academy and Amanda Forbes, Trinity Education
17 “Small Things with Great Love”: Apostle Peter’s Wisdom for Christian Educators Around the World 399
Mary Poplin, Claremont University
Part III Humanity at a Crossroads in Determining the Relationship Between Christianity and Education 417
18 The Supreme Court, 1st Amendment Religion Clauses, and Education: An Overview 419
Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton
19 Using the Christian Paradigm of Living and Learning to Rethink the Extravert Ideal 441
Betty J. Talbert, Biola University
20 The Dog that Didn’t Bark: Enrollment, Student Demographic, and Capacity Trends in Christian Schools after the Introduction of Private School Choice 477
Dick Carpenter II, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Rebecca S. Keith, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
21 School Choice, Worldview, and Secularism’s Blindness 513
Craig S. Englehardt, Baylor University
22 Education in a Catholic Key 537
Timothy R. Scully, University of Notre Dame, Sean McGraw, University of Notre Dame, William C. Mattison, University of Notre Dame, and Louis A. DelFra, University of Notre Dame
23 Minority Male Attainment: Cultivating Spiritual, Social, and Emotional Development 559
Osie L. Wood, Jr. and Monica Cole-Jackson
24 Defining our Terms: Why the Vision for the Pluralistic University Depends upon a Clear and Rigorous Understanding of Pluralism 577
Robert Osburn, Wilberforce Academy and William Jeynes, California State University, Long Beach and the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton
25 Christianity and Higher Education: Empirical Studies on the Perceptions of Intellectual Diversity at Elite Universities in the United States 601
Mark Brow, University of Illinois at Chicago
26 Religion, Adolescent Wellbeing, and Educational Outcomes 631
Tommy M. Phillips, Mississippi State University
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