Educating for Life Reflections on Christian Teaching and Learning by Nicholas Wolterstorff, Gloria Goris Stronks, Clarence Jolder [Baker,2002]

by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Educating for Reflections on Christian Teaching and Learning by Nichola...

Genres: Education

Paperback

First published June 1, 2002

About the author

Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, and Fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests, he has written books on metaphysics, aesthetics, political philosophy, epistemology and theology and philosophy of religion.

Reviews

[Phillip Nash · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not sure why I had not read this collection of Wolterstorff’s speeches and writing before. It is prophetic in many respects but also challenges us to re-examine what we are doing in our Christian schools. He writes/speaks clearly and logically as a good philosopher should. The works selected show the development of his thought over a period of 40 plus years - a life-long learner surely. Each generation of Christian school workers needs to re-examine the issues he raises and ensure we are both maintaining our focus and developing our understanding of the task of education for life.

[Kevin Fulton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of speeches and essays by Nicholas Wolterstorff will make you think deeply about education.
If you simply are focused on the academic aspects, he will convict you and help you to see that emotional and relational perspectives matter and must be included in a good education. He consistently emphasizes that education is to produce action and that the best way to produce this action is not simply by teaching what is right or good. But by modeling it and giving students chances to apply it after you teach it.
I generally don’t like books that are formed by collecting speeches and essays, however, this book is excellent.

[Robbie Burns · Rating 4 out of 5]

- a must read for Christian to educators

- strong balance of philosophical interrogation and practical application

- despite this, some not very good ideas about pluralist society and its involvement in education - I don’t think he understands or appreciates how much money can warp peoples work

-skirts round the edges of the classical tradition and could have made more of this