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{"title":"Book Review: Conceptualising Religion and Worldviews for the School: Opportunities, Challenges and Complexities of a Transition from Religious Education in England and Beyond","authors":"Trevor Cooling","doi":"10.1177/20569971231154180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20569971231154180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13840,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Christianity & Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"225 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46215701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Teaching for Spiritual Formation: A Patristic Approach to Christian Education in a Convulsed Age","authors":"G. Sanders","doi":"10.1177/20569971231153794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20569971231153794","url":null,"abstract":"The assumptions and ideas behind Kyle Hughes ’ s Teaching for Spiritual Formation are bold, at least in today ’ s educational contexts: that catechesis can and should occur in schools, especially Christian schools; that the primary goal of education is formation of virtue and “ Christian imagination ” ; that the “ ascetical theology ” of the classic Christian Fathers is an important guide to such formation; and that it is both possible and imperative to pursue such formation within contemporary Christian institutions and the world they serve. Hughes draws on several contemporary conversations about spiritual formation in children and teenagers: Christian Smith ’ s and Melinda Lundquist Denton ’ s analysis of “ moralistic therapeutic deism, ” Charles Taylor ’ s description of post-Christian social contexts, James K.A. Smith ’ s ideas on formative social liturgies and embodied learning, David I. Smith ’ s insights on patently Christian pedagogies","PeriodicalId":13840,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Christianity & Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"223 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43362086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing about teaching","authors":"David Smith","doi":"10.1177/20569971231161032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20569971231161032","url":null,"abstract":"In the preface to his recent book Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching, Mark Jordan recalls his experiences as a young teacher who “found many books about teaching beside the point” and asserts that “we don’t need books about teaching so much as books that teach” (vii). Stated in such bald terms, I am not sure the distinction quite works. There are books that teach but teach the wrong thing, or have no bearing on teaching at all, and presumably these are not the items desired. It seems that the desire might be for books that teach that also teach us something about teaching. While Jordan’s book clearly aims to teach through a particular rhetorical mode and the inclusion of imaginative exercises and invitations to reflection, it still seems appropriate to call it a book about teaching. Yet I am not sure that the intention was a clean philosophical distinction so much as a provocation to consider whether the ways in which we write and read about teaching actually help us to teach, let alone to teach in a manner wisely informed by theological reflection. Read in that way, the comment resonated with some of my own longstanding dissatisfactions. It names a problem that seems worth probing further. Jordan explains his own antipathy toward many of the books he encountered early in his career as being rooted in the sense that “either they offered small, tidy solutions to incidental problems or they deduced a satisfied system from assumptions about what ideal Christian teaching should be.” Again, this rings true to my experience. There have been plenty of books offering collections of tips and tricks for the classroom. A current wave of books offering guides to applying the minutiae of current cognitive science may be added to the list. They can be a helpful source of small fixes, some of which are a significant help, yet many of them offer little reflection on what, why, whom, or even exactly how we are teaching. Many model an atomized way of thinking about what teaching is, accumulating the fixes one by one and presenting them in lists of increasing size. The apparently unlikely search combination of “hundred” and “teaching” yields plenty of hits in major online bookstores, reflecting the same preoccupation with numerical accumulation of quick solutions to life problems accompanied by minimal demand for commitment or joined up reflection that adorns the front covers of lifestyle magazines at the supermarket checkout. Neither a rich sense of context (social, ethical, economic, cultural, spiritual, interpersonal, etc.) nor a strong investment in cohesion of underlying educational vision are typically strong points in such texts. At the other end of the scale are books that are big","PeriodicalId":13840,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Christianity & Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"117 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49373516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The incarnation and education as acts of weaving: Towards a comprehensive approach to schooling from a Christian perspective","authors":"Carmelo Galioto","doi":"10.1177/20569971221098424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20569971221098424","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes the Incarnation as a theological principle that illuminates the educational task, especially for Christian-oriented schools. Initially, I develop keys to understanding the Incarnation as an integrating event that can help us understand education as a comprehensive phenomenon. Then, I explore implications: First, based on the symbolism of the Incarnation as act of weaving, I consider education as a set of processes that allows the emergence of the divine-human vocation; second, studying can be conceived as a tool for a comprehensive weaving of a person’s true self. I discuss the validity of the implications of this perspective.","PeriodicalId":13840,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Christianity & Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"50 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47480808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Martin Luther: Father of the Reformation and Educational Reformer","authors":"Boris Paschke","doi":"10.1177/20569971221135756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20569971221135756","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13840,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Christianity & Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"88 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48415508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forming Christian virtues through Sabbath practices","authors":"Rachel B. Griffis","doi":"10.1177/20569971231151229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20569971231151229","url":null,"abstract":"In the March 2020 issue of International Journal of Christianity and Education, Ken Badley wrote a prescient editorial titled “Green Spaces and Sabbath,” which argues “both we and our students need to breathe” and calls for “robust warrants” that encourage teachers to incorporate the biblical practices of Sabbath into educational spaces (2020: 3, 5). In his reflection on the concept of the Jubilee, Badley draws attention to the implication that “we should even let the economy rest from time to time,” and in what is now an ironic statement, he adds that economic rest is “unthinkable in our own day” (2020: 2). Although not articulated in terms of “rest,” the ensuing stay-at-home orders and economic shutdowns that were implemented around the time Badley’s editorial was published effectively provided opportunity for teachers and students (and others) to get a taste of a world not driven by economic interest and instead the health and safety of people living under the threat of a new virus. Regardless as to whether the economic shutdowns were the best response to COVID19, the very concept introduced to our world the possibility that life need not be ordered by money and production. As a Christian teacher who has long incorporated the principles of Sabbath both into my life and my teaching, I hoped amid the quarantines in 2020 that my students would experientially discover that something other than money might drive their choices, priorities, and daily rhythms. In effect, I hoped that peoples’ widespread choice to prioritize physical health over the production of commodities would attune students to the biblical practice of Sabbath, a practice I believe will equip them to resist the vices of our time and to develop Christian virtues. As Walter Brueggemann asserts, Sabbath-keeping “is an act of both resistance and alternative ... because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined by the production and consumption of commodity goods” (2014: xiii-xiv). Or, as Abraham Joshua Heschel states, Sabbath is “a day on which we stop worshipping the idols of technical civilization” (1951: 28). Given the extent to which greed and consumerism are normalized in academic ritual and rhetoric— specifically to motivate students both to enroll and take their studies seriously—the practice and concept of the Sabbath is a powerful alternative to the status quo that Christian teachers should share with their students. “Those who remember and keep","PeriodicalId":13840,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Christianity & Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"3 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49102859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: The Myth of the Saving Power of Education","authors":"R. Fox","doi":"10.1177/20569971231151582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20569971231151582","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13840,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Christianity & Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"98 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43217647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: The Flourishing Teacher: Vocational Renewal for a Sacred Profession","authors":"Karen A. Wrobbel","doi":"10.1177/20569971221149355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20569971221149355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13840,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Christianity & Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"96 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43212363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words","authors":"Rachel B. Griffis","doi":"10.1177/20569971221139131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20569971221139131","url":null,"abstract":"Richard Hughes Gibson and James Edward Beitler III ’ s Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words mines the Christian tradition for philosophical and practical insights regarding both the habit and teaching of writing. The authors explore “ how we conceive of, and, in turn, practice writing, ” arguing that “ our spiritual commitments can and should provide bearings for our academic and professional work ” (p. 1). In addition to building their argument upon scripture and foundational texts of the Christian tradition, the authors include visual art as a springboard for re fl ection, such as Andrea Mantegna ’ s San Luca Altarpiece , David Holgate ’ s Julian of Norwich , and Albrecht Dürer ’ s St Jerome in His Study .","PeriodicalId":13840,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Christianity & Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"90 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45438191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Faith, Life, and Learning Online: Promoting Mission Across Learning Modalities","authors":"Linda L. Samek","doi":"10.1177/20569971221140293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20569971221140293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13840,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Christianity & Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"92 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42649691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}