Argues that current views of the teacher and approaches to teaching impede the confirmation event and may contribute to the flight of young people post-confirmation. Considers a pedagogy discerned through a reading of the Book of Proverbs that promises to honor the agency of both teacher and learner and serve the goal of confirmation. (CMK)

Out of the school reform movement of the eighties have come recommendations for professional development schools, site-based management, and teacher empowerment. Such initiatives can be implemented only in environments where continuing pursuit of new knowledge exists at every level. There is a pressing need for educational models that strive to…

This paper on infusing a Christian approach into college teaching argues that the traditional definition of teaching is narrow and harmful, that the methods a teacher uses are content themselves, that some methods are more consonant with Christian principles than others, and that Christian teachers in a Christian post-secondary institution should…