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Here we deal with the interrelation and meaning of the facts of history, and the relationship of the truths of the Gospel. Constructions we make when we build. We do not simply teach a jumble of facts, but trace out the meaning of the Spirit in these facts, and thus we construct. This is an element
Students must be taught to not rely on authorities and textbooks but must be taught how to think for themselves. The new environment would not stress that learning is being told what happened but that learning is a happening in itself. The push is for an environment that encourages students to imi
This would lead me to conclude that the “chickens are coming home to roost.” Educators in the land and university theorizers have for the last forty years been insisting that all education must be patterned according to the “life-adjustment” and “life-centered” theories of the late John Dewey. This
The point is, in spite of problems, we must interpret all reality, or any part of the whole, according to God's interpretation in Scripture. But, according to Modernist principles of education, we should abandon the attempt to interpret the whole of reality for the simple reason that we can have no
The term "modernism" is used often, both in a popular and philosophic sense. In the popular sense, modernism refers to chronology and speaks of things being up to date or speaks of progress. Used in the philosophic sense, modernists refer to a time that in their opinion is superior to previous ages
The term “educator” fits much better with those teachers and that philosophy which thinks of man in terms of an evolving and becoming creature; a creature that is gradually becoming better and better from a very primitive beginning. I submit that in order to have a distinctive philosophy of “educati
He cannot be constructive if he does not have the authority which based upon the eternal principle of obedience which is rooted in faith and love for God who sent his Son, the eternally obedient one. This implies that the learning process in the Protestant Reformed Christian School is distinctive. I
Koops as follows: Let us build our program evangelism, rather than our program of education, upon the doctrine of the covenant. For the doctrine of the covenant belongs to theology, and not to education. This doctrine is a foundation for a church, not for a school. A theory of education must be buil
The Curriculum When a carpenter builds a house he uses tools. When the carpenter, who is a Christian, builds a house, he uses the same tools as the non-Christian. The method whereby he builds the house varies little except as the particular likes and dislikes of the builder may determine the variat
In the last four posts, I attempted to shed some light on the context of the theory known as social constructionism. It is a theory that dramatically shifts man's understanding of knowledge. It is a reaction to the modern positivist understanding of knowledge. In the positivist school of thought, kn