Are you a teacher or administrator in a school that belongs to the Dutch Neo-Calvinist tradition of alternative education? This book provides you with an overview of this tradition's legacy and its five formative features: the school as a dissident social institution; the school as a transformative institution; teacher led curriculum and pedagogical reform; parent-controlled schools; rich theological/philosophical foundations. Your contemporary vision of Christian education will benefit from an understanding of your tradition’s origins, what it has accomplished so far, where it has failed and what remains to be done. For more details click here. ∞
Are you a teacher or administrator in a school that belongs to a different faith-based tradition of education? This book challenges you to evaluate your school’s educational vision; is it too small, too large, too compromised? Does your tradition of education want to graduate students to unquestioningly fit into society or to make a difference? Is your tradition on track or in need of a course correction? Education for Hope provides you with an opportunity to learn from the successes and mistakes of a tradition with a large vision for cultural transformation. For more details click here. ∞
Are you a teacher or administrator in a public school? This book provides an overview of the paradigm that shapes North American education and its impact on one tradition’s efforts to implement an alternative vision. Ever wonder why educational reforms don’t stick for very long? Do you desire to make the biggest difference in the lives of your students? You may be surprised what you can learn from a small, obscure alternative tradition of education. For more details click here. ∞