[PPT] - Teaching from a biblical perspective; avoiding the extremes PowerPoint Presentation

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ken.dickens@nice.edu.au

Teaching from a biblical perspective; avoiding the extremes

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If not a biblical perspective then……..?

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What’s a biblical perspective worth?

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……..these schools were Chris5an and as such should be different in every aspect of their being (Anthony, 1948).

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Respectably conformist or brainlessly pious (Jensen, 2009)

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Biblical perspective

3 options (Van Dyk)

1. Dualistic
2. Tacky
3. Authentic

Conformist Brainlessly pious

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dualistic

do education really well | do Christianity really well = lots of evangelism and Bible teaching = lots of good education

but they never really come together

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Religion

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1. Dualistic
2. Tacky
3. Authentic

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tacky

reaction to dualism squeezing the Bible into education

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tacky

The Bible must address this!

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Bible-based Bible bits

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authentic?

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God (revealed) Bible big story (Christ) view of the world education

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“If we allow the Bible to become fragmented, it is in danger of being absorbed into whatever other story is shaping our culture, and it will thus cease to shape our lives as it should. Idolatry has twisted the dominant cultural story of the secular Western

world. If as believers we allow this story (rather

than the Bible) to become the foundation of our thought and action, then our lives will manifest not the truths of Scripture, but the lies of an idolatrous

culture. Hence, the unity of Scripture is no minor

matter: a fragmented Bible may actually produce theologically orthodox, morally upright, warmly pious idol worshippers!”

SLIDE 18 Colossians 1: 15-20

“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn

ver all creation. For by Him all things were created:

things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood shed on the cross.”

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He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn

ver all creation. For by Him all things were created:

things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood shed on the cross.

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RESEARCH

Surveying leadership in Christian schools: Should the Bible shape our view of all things?

Y 100%

Should the Bible shape the subjects that we teach?

Y

50%

Does the Bible shape the subjects that we teach?

Y 18%

(one school 0%)

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Why?

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Curriculum Pedagogy

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teaching

guiding unfolding enabling

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Teaching is guiding via unfolding towards enabling... I tend to think that this formula points to the universal character of all teaching, Christian or secular. Secular teaching, too, guides, unfolds and enables… The crucial difference… lies in the answers to these questions:

John Van Dyk

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1. Towards which destination is the teacher guiding

the student? Merely towards self reliance, social adjustment and solid citizenship? Or to the person God intended them to be; doing the good works he has planned for them to do?

2. And what is the teacher unfolding? Merely a

world of nature controlled by natural law? Or a creation revealing God’s presence, power and love?

3. And to what end are they enabling? To be

successful participants in the Western way of material consumerism? Or to be agents of Christ’s reconciliation?

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what is your vision for education? guiding unfolding enabling

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Curriculum is crea5on!

(Greene, 1998)

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CCE Teach

Intro Slide

CCE (Design)

Designing Christian Curriculum

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Creation Fall Redemption Restoration

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The same and radically different

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Common grace An5thesis

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Has “worldview” lost its usefulness?

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The final word from Naugle

As a result, a philosophically sophisticated, God centred conception of a Christian worldview spares believers from naïve fideism, scandalous ant-intellectualism and cultural obscurantism. In turn it imparts to them a cognitive confidence, an apologetic strategy, a cultural relevance, and a sound, spiritual basis for life in the coherent picture

f God’s larger story (Naugle, 2002, p.

341).

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Romans 12:1-2

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view

f God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living

sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but

be transformed by the renewing of your

mind. Then you will be able to test and approve

what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

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Real education

that’s

Bible-based

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Bible bits

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God (revealed) Bible big story (Christ) view the world education

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ken.dickens@nice.edu.au