This primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process. Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Parker Palmer finds the soul of education through a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us possesses and can share to benefit others.
As we survey the educational ruins around us, classical and Christian education appears to be an idea whose time has come again. More and more Christian parents are seeing the failures of modern education, and they are hungering for a substantive alternative, one that has been tested before and found to be good. Classical and Christian education presents them with just such an alternative.
Anak-anak akan lebih mudah memahami apa yang diajarkan dengan melihat dan melakukan sesuatu dalam interaksi, daripada sekadar duduk dan mendengarkan. Karena itu, prakarya kreatif perlu dilakukan bersama oleh guru dan murid sebagai bagian penting dalam pelajaran. Koleksi ide-ide kreatif dalam buku ini khusus dirancang untuk membantu para guru sekolah minggu menanamkan ajaran Alkitab kepada anak…
Saint Augustine wrote Instructing Beginners in Faith as a reflection on the most suitable way of communicating the heart of Christian faith to those applying for membership of the Church. In the course of the past sixteen hundred years. however, the treatise has been frequently and creatively adapted to serve the needs of education in faith in many different contexts, including the education of…
Where was the Crystal Palace? Who was the Sick Man of Europe? Told in the straightforward, enganging style that has become Susan Wise Bauer's trademark, THE STORY OF THE WORLD covers the sweep of human history from ancient times until the present. Africa, China Europe, the Americas-findout what has happened all around the world in the centuris before ours and in our own time. This read aloud se…
Have you ever asked questions like : "Why did God allow Adam and Eve to sin? What is God plan for me?" Sometimes we have really tough questions. We wonder if there is anyone who can give us an answer. Some questions are about life, some are about death - some of them are even about God. How can we get answers to questions about God and the Bible? Well, one way is to read the Bible - the Word of…
BUKU INI MENYUARAKAN KENBALI SUARA KENABI AN DARI DUA PENDIDIK YANG SANGAT BERKOMPETEN UNTUK MENJELASKAN ISU-ISU MENDASAR TENTANG SEKOLAH KRISTEN. Dalam kata pengantarnya, editor Dennis E. Johnson menuliskan, "Beberapa orangtua menempatkan anak-anak mereka di sekolah Kristen dengan harapan mereka terhindar dari cobaan-cobaan dunia yang semakin nyata: narkotika, seks di luar nikah yang menye…
Masa kecil seseorang bukan hanya sekadar proses yang harus dilalui agar menjadi dewasa tanpa adanya signifikansi tertentu. Tuhan sangat menghargai anak-anak. Siapa yang menguasai dunia anak, dialah nabi yang akan menguasai hari esok dunia. Ada pepatah mengatakan: “Guru adalah arsitek jiwa manusia.” Benarkah pendapat John Locke yang mengatakan bahwa hati anak bagaikan kertas putih kosong dan…