Principles and Practices of Christian Education: An Evangelical Perspective

by Robert W. Pazmiño

Principles and Practices of Christian Education shows teachers how they can use two important principles that stand behind all evangelical practices to make their education program stand out from all the others in its nurture of students. First, evangelical Christian education recognizes the need for conversion-personal and corporate transformation that reconnects people to their Creator. Second, evangelical Christian education strives for connection-making contact with people as unique individuals who live in a particular society and who need to know more about scripture. In this book Christian education students learn that the work for which they prepare is a partnership with God to transform people. Their central task is worship, but through it and other activities they lead others to faith, commitment, and transformation of communities.

181 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1992

Reviews

[Kevin Fulton · Rating 3 out of 5]

The strengths of the book lie in all the “background” stuff of teaching, the philosophy teachers should approach their job with.
The main weaknesses are that there are few concrete suggestions to apply the teaching philosophy, when suggestions are there, they tend to be vague and generic. The other weakness is that the author does not seem to be aware of educational psychology research.

I’d recommend his other work, Foundational Issues in Christian Education over this one.