Summary Post:
Though this is one of my later posts, this is a great place to start. It sums up my philosophy of education and includes links to many other posts, making it easier to find subjects you are interested in pursuing further:
Proposal for a Reformed Christian Philosophy of Education
Why This Series
A Call for a Reformed Christian Philosophy of Education
Why we need a reformed theology of education
Public education in American today
Why not Christian classical? (see also the section below on classical)
What’s wrong with Charlotte Mason?
Principle- and Worldview-Based Approaches to Education
Charlotte Mason, Anglicanism and You
Methodology
Methodology: what the Bible can tell us about education
Reformed Christian Education: Practical Details
Partial Bibliography
Reformed Christian Education: What to Read
What the Bible has to say
The image of God and The Image of God Revisited
Words for Teach in the Old Testament
Pulling it all together: the Theory
Reformed Christian Education: Drawing Some Conclusions (Though this is a summary post on the theory, it is not a bad place to start)
The purpose of education, part 1
The purpose of education, part 2
Church, State, . . . and School?
Education and the Covenant Child
How Specific Calvinistic Beliefs Affect Education
Four Approaches to Education, and Where We Fit
Principles of Reformed Education (aka The Practical Stuff)
Summary Post (Again, I am linking the summary post first)
Interesting but not Entertaining
Living Books and the Living Word
Synthesizing Ideas (on testing, worksheets, etc)
Theology and Methodology in Education
But How Do I Use All This??
Implementing a Christian Education in Public, Private or Homeschool
What We Study and Why
In Defense of Truth and Beauty
Christianity, Science and the Pursuit of Truth
Langauge see also A Few More Thoughts on Grammar
Literature see also Zylstra and the Love of Literature
Christian Classical Education (or not)
Classical is a very broadly used term so I’ve got a number of posts on it. For help in sorting it all out, start with this post: Sorting Out Classical and Characteristics of Classical Education
Posts critiquing classical education:
Hebraic vs Hellenistic Education (a video review)
Revisiting Hebraic vs Greek Education
Peter Ton Tackles Classical Education
A little relevant history: Book Review: Train Up a Child
And Bavinck’s History of Classical Ed: On the History of Classical Education
Posts on various varieties of “classical” education:
Classical Education (aka democratic classicism; the Great Books movement)
Dorothy Sayers’ “Lost Tools of Learning” (the article which is said to have ignited the modern classical movement)
David Hicks’ Norms and Nobility, part 1 and part 2 (aka moralistic classicism)
James S. Taylor’s Poetic Knowledge
Douglas Wilson’s Christian Classical
Veith and Kern on Classical Education
Clark and Jain’s The Liberal Arts Tradition part 1, part 2, and part 3
Alfred North Whitehead and Classical Education (Whitehead is often quoted by classical educators but is not himself classical)
History of Thought on Education
Some of the leading thinkers on education and what they really believed
Book Review: History of Jewish Education
History of Education: Biblical Times
History of Education: Church Fathers
History of Education: The Middle Ages
History of Education: Humanism and the Reformation
History of Education: 1500-1800
History of Education: the 1800s
History of Education: 1870-present
On John Dewey, the single biggest figure behind modern American public education: John Dewey, Evolution and Socialization, Evolution is a Mindset and Education and the Source of Evil
History of Dutch Reformed Education in America
Charlotte Mason and the Puritans on Education
Public Education in America Today
Reformed Thinkers: Shorter Articles (touches on anabaptist versus reformed approaches)
Chris Coleburn on the History of Reformed Education
Book Reviews/Reformed Thinkers
For an annotated bibliography of some of my favorite authors see Reformed Christian Education: What to Read
Reformed Thinkers on Education: Introductory Post
Reformed Thinkers: Gordon H. Clark on the Image of God
Reformed Thinkers: Peter Ton Tackles Classical Education
Reformed Thinkers: W.H. Jellema’s “New Wisdom”
Reformed Thinkers: Nicholas Wolterstorff on Child-led Education
Reformed Thinkers: Henry Zylstra, Or The Transforming Power of Truth
and Henry Zylstra and the Love of Literature
and Zylstra on Frameworks and How We Know What’s True
Reformed Thinkers: Nicholas Beversluis on Man’s Nature and Purpose
Reformed Thinkers: Louis Berkhof, or the Covenant in Education
Reformed Thinkers: Jaarsma, part 1: Four Ways to Approach Education
and part 2: Psychology and Relationship and Jaarsma and the Argument for Schools
and Jaarsma Revisited, or Uniting the Heart and Mind
Reformed Thinkers: Donald Oppewal on Epistemology
Reformed Thinkers: Henry Schultze, or the Integrated Personality
Reformed Thinkers: Bavinck On Art, On the History of Classical Education
Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Epistemology
Reformed Thinkers: Johann Sturm
Fesko on Natural Law and Epistemology
Rut Etheridge on the Crisis in Epistemology
Reformed Thinkers: Shorter Articles
Chris Coleburn on the History of Reformed Education
Reformed Thinkers: Gaebelein, or “All truth is God’s truth” and Gaebelein on Truth
Reformed Thinkers: Lockerbie: Introduction and On Christian Paedeia
and On Teachers and On Schools plus Mason vs. Lockerbie: Two Views of the Teacher
The Crisis in Western Education by Dawson
The Making and the Unmaking of a Dullard
Hebraic vs Hellenistic Education (a video review)
Rousas Rushdoony: Philosophy of Christian Curriculum
Teaching and Christian Imagination
The Holy Spirit in Education (a podcast review)
The Great Debate: Public, Private or Home
Implementing a Christian Education in Public, Private or Homeschool
Church, State . . . And School?
Cornelius Jaarsma and the Argument for Schools
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