The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education
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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.
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<p>Acknowledgments xv</p>
<p>Introduction 1</p>
<p>Part I Major Issues in Christian Education 3</p>
<p>1 The Movement Away from God in American Education 5<br />Kenneth Calvert, Hillsdale College</p>
<p>2 The Two Biological Parent Family, Christianity, and Economic Prosperity 43<br />William Jeynes, California State University, Long Beach and the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton</p>
<p>3 The Christian Pastoral ]Artisanal vs. Academic Industrial Models of Education in America 67<br />David W. Robinson, George Fox University</p>
<p>4 Engaging Questions of Purpose: The Resurgence of Vocational Exploration and Its Integrative Potential for Higher Education 95<br />Michelle C. Louis, Azusa Pacific University</p>
<p>5 Why Religion and Religious Freedom is Good for Society, Offenders, and Prisons 119<br />Byron R. Johnson, Baylor University</p>
<p>6 The Integration of Faith Tradition and Teaching in Christian Higher Education 141<br />Perry L. Glanzer, Baylor University and Nathan F. Alleman, Baylor University</p>
<p>7 A Christian Mentoring Program for Character Education of African American Teens and Young Adults from Detroit 165<br />Lou Selzer, Metro Detroit</p>
<p>8 Character Education Traced Throughout American History 201<br />Jamie Kay Jakubowski–Tungyoo, California State University, Long Beach and William Jeynes, California State University, Long Beach and the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton</p>
<p>9 Publicly Funded Charter Schools with Religious Ties 233<br />Daniel Hamlin, University of Toronto and Harvard University</p>
<p>Part II Christianity and Education Around the Globe 257</p>
<p>10 Faith ]based Schooling in a Pluralistic Democracy 259<br />Charles L. Glenn, Boston University</p>
<p>11 The Teaching of the Holocaust in American Evangelical Christian Schools 279<br />William Jeynes, California State University, Long Beach and the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton</p>
<p>12 Learned Piety in a Place of Freedom: A Brief History of Liberal Education in Europe, 1200 2000 297<br />Fred W. Beuttler, University of Chicago</p>
<p>13 Religious Liberty and Educational Pluralism: Abraham Kuyper s Principled Advocacy of School Choice 325<br />Wendy Naylor, University of Chicago</p>
<p>14 Christianity and Education: A Brazilian Perspective 355<br />Paulo Romeiro, MacKenzie University, Brazil</p>
<p>15 Latinx Parental Expectations in the Home: Educación and the Assets of Religiosity, Family, and Community 365<br />Daniel D. Liou, Arizona State University, Eric Ambroso, Arizona State University, and Rene Antrop–González, Metropolitan State University Minnesota</p>
<p>16 Church ]based and Community ]centered Higher Education: Case Study of an Alternative Strategy for Delivering Faith ]based General Education to the Poor Around the World 381<br />Robert Osburn, Wilberforce Academy and Amanda Forbes, Trinity Education</p>
<p>17 Small Things with Great Love : Apostle Peter s Wisdom for Christian Educators Around the World 399<br />Mary Poplin, Claremont University</p>
<p>Part III Humanity at a Crossroads in Determining the Relationship Between Christianity and Education 417</p>
<p>18 The Supreme Court, 1st Amendment Religion Clauses, and Education: An Overview 419<br />Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton</p>
<p>19 Using the Christian Paradigm of Living and Learning to Rethink the Extravert Ideal 441<br />Betty J. Talbert, Biola University</p>
<p>20 The Dog that Didn t Bark: Enrollment, Student Demographic, and Capacity Trends in Christian Schools after the Introduction of Private School Choice 477<br />Dick Carpenter II, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Rebecca S. Keith, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs</p>
<p>21 School Choice, Worldview, and Secularism s Blindness 513<br />Craig S. Englehardt, Baylor University</p>
<p>22 Education in a Catholic Key 537<br />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</p>
<p>23 Minority Male Attainment: Cultivating Spiritual, Social, and Emotional Development 559<br />Osie L. Wood, Jr. and Monica Cole–Jackson</p>
<p>24 Defining our Terms: Why the Vision for the Pluralistic University Depends upon a Clear and Rigorous Understanding of Pluralism 577<br />Robert Osburn, Wilberforce Academy and William Jeynes, California State University, Long Beach and the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton</p>
<p>25 Christianity and Higher Education: Empirical Studies on the Perceptions of Intellectual Diversity at Elite Universities in the United States 601<br />Mark Brow, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>26 Religion, Adolescent Wellbeing, and Educational Outcomes 631<br />Tommy M. Phillips, Mississippi State University</p>
<p>Index</p>
