Education for Hope: A Course Correction
This book traces the little-known history of an alternative school system erected in Canada by post-WWII Dutch Neo-Calvinist immigrants. In less than four decades, this community established a kindergarten to university education system that extended from Ottawa, Ontario to Victoria, BC. This remarkable tradition of education imagines the school as a dissident and transformational social institution. While this book offers the narrative of faith-based tradition of education, the author makes a strong case that educators from diverse ideological backgrounds, can learn important lessons from it about the implementation of an alternative educational vision, teacher-led curriculum reform and a self-formative pedagogy. To supplement this narrative, the author also provides a separate set of theoretical discussions on key issues in school reform, as well as, his memoir as an educator and curriculum designer within this tradition.
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Education for Hope: A Course Correction
This book traces the little-known history of an alternative school system erected in Canada by post-WWII Dutch Neo-Calvinist immigrants. In less than four decades, this community established a kindergarten to university education system that extended from Ottawa, Ontario to Victoria, BC. This remarkable tradition of education imagines the school as a dissident and transformational social institution. While this book offers the narrative of faith-based tradition of education, the author makes a strong case that educators from diverse ideological backgrounds, can learn important lessons from it about the implementation of an alternative educational vision, teacher-led curriculum reform and a self-formative pedagogy. To supplement this narrative, the author also provides a separate set of theoretical discussions on key issues in school reform, as well as, his memoir as an educator and curriculum designer within this tradition.
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Education for Hope: A Course Correction

Education for Hope: A Course Correction

by John E Hull
Education for Hope: A Course Correction

Education for Hope: A Course Correction

by John E Hull

Overview

This book traces the little-known history of an alternative school system erected in Canada by post-WWII Dutch Neo-Calvinist immigrants. In less than four decades, this community established a kindergarten to university education system that extended from Ottawa, Ontario to Victoria, BC. This remarkable tradition of education imagines the school as a dissident and transformational social institution. While this book offers the narrative of faith-based tradition of education, the author makes a strong case that educators from diverse ideological backgrounds, can learn important lessons from it about the implementation of an alternative educational vision, teacher-led curriculum reform and a self-formative pedagogy. To supplement this narrative, the author also provides a separate set of theoretical discussions on key issues in school reform, as well as, his memoir as an educator and curriculum designer within this tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781039145337
Publisher: FriesenPress
Publication date: 02/09/2023
Pages: 456
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.02(d)

About the Author

John E. Hull is an emeritus professor of education at The King's University in Edmonton, Alberta, where he taught courses in education foundations and curriculum theory/design. He also served as the education faculty dean for many years. He received his masters and doctorate degrees in the history and philosophy of education at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Prior to his academic career, he was a high school teacher for nineteen years. He has written curriculum for high school social studies and published articles on school reform. He is a founding member and former chair of the Association of Alberta Deans of Education. John and his wife Glenda live in Edmonton.
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