Thursday, May 23, 2013
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| In his book Between Memory and Vision: The Case for Faith-Based Schooling, professor Steven C. Vryhof describes three faith-based schools that are members of Christian Schools International, an organization of schools within the Reformed Christian tradition. While Vryhof does compare the performance of the three schools to that of public, Catholic, private religious, and private non-religious schools, his main focus is the social and cultural effect of CSI schools on the communities that support them. The schools have strong ties to their communities, he says, and work not only to impart skills and knowledge to the young, but also to bequeath the memory, values, and worldview of the community to them. These schools act contrary to many of today's institutions, which shy away from imparting the faith and worldview of older generations to younger ones. In embracing just such a transmission, the schools that Vryhof depicts endeavor to build intergenerational relationships so that the identity of the community will be preserved. |  Between Memory and Vision: The Case for Faith-Based Schooling (Eerdmans, 2003) |
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