The
research has thus far shown that Christian education encompasses more than just
the study and delivery of information aimed at spiritual formation. It should
intentionally inform all areas pertaining to ecclesia – worship, evangelism,
edification, fellowship, ministry and prayer. It is unwise to ignore the
educational trends of the culture and society. If the Body of Christ is to stem
the tide of decades of secularism in Education, then the way forward must
include a reconsideration of Christian pedagogy intentionally driven through
Christian community.
Trevor
Cooling (2015) recommends exploring two models: First, an awareness of the
modernist model which pushes hard knowledge and “treats Christian belief as at
best unnecessary clutter and at worst as irrational and even toxic” (p. 21).
Second is the postmodern model which promotes the subjective – maintaining that
“knowledge is simply a construction of the human mind and there is no objective
truth in education” (p.21).
