catapult magazine

Items tagged education

• Potholes on Sesame Street

  The problems with the popular television show and with the medium of television in general outweigh the potential educational value.

• Demian's relevance

  A student analyzes Hermann Hesse's novel for affronts to Christianity and then explains why such literature should be studied in Christian schools.

• No tears flow at the mall

  Teaching children how to have a relationship with the natural environment cures an ache that is only temporarily dulled by material things.

• Can we test for that?

  A review of Howard Gardner's The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education that Every Child Deserves.

• <b>*cino</b>: the mission and vision

  If you've been wondering what *culture is not optional is all about, check out our latest attempt to explain ourselves. Hint: it's got something to do with our motto?

• Helping students develop their culture vision

  *cino proposes to expand and market a media discernment curriculum developed by the author that is already being used successfully at Illiana Christian High School.

• Reviving Acts 2

  *cino acts+two communities propose cooperative education among local churches.

• Thorough converts

  American Protestant universities are currently faced with the challenge of defining an approach to culture that fears neither questions nor answers. In this sense, what does an effective institution look like?

• A waste of time?

  I thought liberal arts classes would be boring, until I started finding God in every one of them.

• College and culture

  How can the college experience affect an individual's lifelong approach to culture?

• The hard parts

  On the suffering that penetrates even the colorfully-decorated walls of a kindergarten classroom.

• Do we even need a sporting chance?

  A faith-based argument against interscholastic athletics.

• Coolness kills community

  A timeless craze threatens to isolate teen-agers from other people and from God.

• Under my skin

  A period of service in Haiti leaves a language arts teacher transformed.

• Wrestling with "Why?"

  What can be seen as extraneous is, indeed, essential.

• I Chronicles 14, and What Is God Asking Me To Do?

  How can a called writer patiently fulfill his monumental task?

• Passing it on

  On teaching a new generation to care for creation.

• Setting the feet on the pathway

  A parent chooses a unique form of education to help her sons develop a sense of "self."

• Cryin?, cheatin?, and leavin?

  A teacher?s assistant ponders what keeps him up all night grading students? papers.

• Failure and hope

  On the challenge of assigning students a grade and the qualities of ?failure.?

• Bratz vs. books

  Struggling with agenda-driven giving at Christmas time.

• One resource-full week

  A week-long natural resource calendar guides the whole family in resource education and analysis.

• Late night thoughts on what being a parent teaches about being God

  A parent of two following The One Rule learns a bit about the nature of the Parent of us all.

• Slaying the monsters

  How do we process what comes from the generation before to benefit the next generation?

• Top Ten re: learning tools

  An unschooling mom makes a list from experience.

• Resurrection happens

  This summer's Practicing Resurrection conference will highlight the reality of the Kingdom in all of life.

• Bridging the gap

  What's American Idol doing in the pulpit?

• The man ain't got no culture

  What happens when "the world" enters your sub-culture?

• Sewing bat's ears

  A trip to the fabric store, inspired by the need for costumes, sparks creativity and wonder.

• Why Hospice

  A social work student examines her calling to assist in times of death.