Description
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
2 The Two Biological Parent Family, Christianity, and Economic Prosperity 43
William Jeynes
3 The Christian Pastoral‐Artisanal vs. Academic Industrial Models of Education in America 67
David W. Robinson
4 Engaging Questions of Purpose: The Resurgence of Vocational Exploration and Its Integrative Potential for Higher Education 95
Michelle C. Louis
5 Why Religion and Religious Freedom is Good for Society, Offenders, and Prisons 119
Byron R. Johnson
6 The Integration of Faith Tradition and Teaching in Christian Higher Education 141
Perry L. Glanzer and Nathan F. Alleman
7 A Christian Mentoring Program for Character Education of African American Teens and Young Adults from Detroit 165
Lou Selzer
8 Character Education Traced Throughout American History 201
Jamie Kay Jakubowski-Tungyoo and William Jeynes
9 Publicly Funded Charter Schools with Religious Ties 233
Daniel Hamlin
Part II Christianity and Education Around the Globe 257
10 Faith‐based Schooling in a Pluralistic Democracy 259
Charles L. Glenn
11 The Teaching of the Holocaust in American Evangelical Christian Schools 279
William Jeynes
12 Learned Piety in a Place of Freedom: A Brief History of Liberal Education in Europe, 1200–2000 297
Fred W. Beuttler
13 Religious Liberty and Educational Pluralism: Abraham Kuyper’s Principled Advocacy of School Choice 325
Wendy Naylor
14 Christianity and Education: A Brazilian Perspective 355
Paulo Romeiro
15 Latinx Parental Expectations in the Home: Educacion and the Assets of Religiosity, Family, and Community 365
Daniel D. Liou, Eric Ambroso, and Rene Antrop-González
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
Robert Osburn and Amanda Forbes
17 “Small Things with Great Love”: Apostle Peter’s Wisdom for Christian Educators Around the World 399
Mary Poplin
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
19 Using the Christian Paradigm of Living and Learning to Rethink the Extravert Ideal 441
Betty J. Talbert
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 and Rebecca S. Keith
21 School Choice, Worldview, and Secularism’s Blindness 513
Craig S. Engelhardt
22 Education in a Catholic Key 537
Timothy R. Scully, Sean McGraw, William C. Mattison III, and Louis A. DelFra
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 and William Jeynes
25 Christianity and Higher Education: Empirical Studies on the Perceptions of Intellectual Diversity at Elite Universities in the United States 601
Mark Brow
26 Religion, Adolescent Wellbeing, and Educational Outcomes 631
Tommy M. Phillips
Index 649
