Are You a Teacher Educator in a faith-based university rooted in the Dutch, Neo-Calvinist tradition preparing pre-service teachers for both faith-based and public schools? This book provides you with an overview of your institution’s Neo-Calvinist legacy of education 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 faculty’s vision of teacher preparation 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 Educator in a faith-based university preparing pre-service teachers for both faith-based and public schools? This book challenges you to evaluate your faculty’s educational vision: do you have one or many; is it too small or too large; is it true to your faith or compromised by outside influences? Does your program of teacher preparation need a course correction? Education for Hope provides you with an opportunity to learn from the successes and mistakes of a tradition with a vision for making the biggest difference. For more details click here. ∞
Are You a Teacher Educator in a public university? This book provides an overview of the paradigm that shapes North American education and one tradition’s efforts to implement an alternative vision. Ever wonder how to prepare teachers who can make educational reforms stick? Do you want your graduates to be good traditional teachers or the kind who make the biggest difference in the lives of students? You may be surprised what you can learn from an alternative tradition of education. For more details click here. ∞