{"product_id":"the-wiley-handbook-of-christianity-and-education-9781119098348","title":"The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Jeynes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Education - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive source that demonstrates how 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century Christianity can interrelate with current educational trends and aspirations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education\u003c\/i\u003e provides a resource for students and scholars interested in the most important issues, trends, and developments in the relationship between Christianity and education. It offers a historical understanding of these two intertwined subjects with a view to creating a context for the myriad issues that characterize—and challenge—the relationship between Christianity and education today. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresented in three parts, the book starts with thought-provoking essays covering major issues in Christian education such as the movement away from God in American education; the Christian paradigm based on love and character vs. academic industrial models of American education; why religion is good for society, offenders, and prisons; the resurgence of vocational exploration and its integrative potential for higher education; and more. It then looks at Christianity and education around the globe—faith-based schooling in a pluralistic democracy; religious expectations in the Latino home; church-based and community-centered higher education; etc. The third part examines how humanity is determining the relationship between Christianity and education with chapters covering the use of Christian paradigm of living and learning; enrollment, student demographic, and capacity trends in Christian schools after the introduction of private schools; empirical studies on the perceptions of intellectual diversity at elite universities in the US; and more.\u003c\/p\u003e  *Provides the breadth and depth of knowledge necessary to gain a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the complex relationship between Christianity and education and its place in contemporary society *A long overdue assessment of the subject, one that takes into account the enormous changes in Christian education *Presents a global consideration of the subject *Examines Christian education across elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest to Christian educators in the academic world, the teaching profession, the ministry, and the college and graduate level student body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45203231211671,"sku":"9781119098348","price":14675.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781119098348.webp?v=1769208457","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-wiley-handbook-of-christianity-and-education-9781119098348","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}