The lectorate Christian teaching aims to help and support Christian teachers in primary, secondary and higher education to do their work with passion and with devoted craftsmanship. We will carry out research and develop material in order to help teachers and student teachers to link their confession to their profession.
Our vision
In our vision the teacher who works from a Christian perspective senses the responsibility to raise and educate students for a future global world. Christian teachers should view themselves as belonging to the widespread Christian community. Therefore we challenge teachers and student teachers to develop an international mindset.
What’s on?
We are working on a plan in which research and development of material will be combined. Our focus is to build a website that contains a spectrum of practical resources for Christian teachers worldwide. In the process we will carry out a survey. By school visits, questionnaires and interviews we would like to know how teachers perceive their job from the perspective of their Christian faith and what they need to improve the quality of their work. We aim to interview teachers working in public schools as well as teachers working in Christian schools. Following this survey we will collect and depict good practices in order to build a database of examples for initial and post-initial teacher training.
Training
The lectorate will have a role in developing and giving courses. We would like to share knowledge and research-findings with teachers, student teachers and teacher-educators. Driestar University is going to offer courses such as a three month international class (Bachelors Level) and a short course of two weeks (Master level).
More information will be given in the coming months. If you would like to contact us, please e-mail Dr. A. (Bram) de Muynck.