Education for Hope
A Course Correction
by John E Hull

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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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“...Hull furnishes a refreshingly deep discussion of the goals of education, one often sorely lacking in contemporary debates... Instead, he attempts to begin a dialogue about “what it means to be human, what is most worth knowing, and what constitutes the good life.” This is a valuable contribution to the contemporary conversation about education reform and what is needed to meet the demands of the future. A scrupulous account of an alternative education movement and a thoughtful recommendation of its principles.” —Kirkus Reviews “Educators of all stripes stand more than ever in need of sources of hope. John Hull turns not to the now customary statistical generalizations, but to the fragile human story of one specific tradition of Christian schooling and its quest for transformation. His readable and trenchant account not only lets us glimpse and learn from its strengths, foibles, and failings, but points to lessons for the wider educational world.” — David I. Smith, director, Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning, Calvin University “In Education for Hope Hull offers a comprehensive resource on the history of Christian Schools Canada. He deals carefully and methodically with issues of concern to all educators, especially those in the neo-Calvinist tradition, but he does so in a warm and deeply personal voice. Hull offers his readers a book that is both hopeful and helpful and I recommend it without reservation.” — Ken Badley, Research Professor in Education, Tyndale University, Toronto

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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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