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Rens Rottier steps down at the end of 2022 as board member

Rens Rottier has decided to step down as chairman of the Executive Board of Driestar Christian University for Teacher Education at the end of 2022. This brings an end to almost 25 years of administrative responsibility for our institute. Yet Rens Rottier wants to put his knowledge and experience at the service of Christian education for a few more years.

A Dutch example of New Education: Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm and his ideas about the New School

Recently, in the Journal of History of Education a first article is published on the inspiring educational theory of the Dutch educationalist Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm (1875-1951).

International Exchange Week

In May, we welcomed international guests at our institute and we were pleased to be able to have them again!

10 Editions International Class

On 18 May 2022 we celebrated the 10th edition of our International Class, in which some of our students, together with foreign students, get acquainted with Christian education worldwide.

INCHE Europe Conference Building Community in Fractured Societies

On April 6-8 INCHE Europe members from thirteen countries met in Budapest for a joyful and informative professional development gathering. After two years of pandemic postponements, Károli Gáspár University, our INCHE member in Hungary, hosted this occasion for Christian educators from across and beyond greater Europe. Together, we explored Building Community in Fractured Societies: Challenges for Christians in Higher Education.

Workshop Wonderfully Made at international conference

In March DCU attended the ACSI International Educational Leadership Conference in Budapest. Many school leaders were together to inspire and encourage one another on the area of Christian education. Sjoerd van den Berg (project leader Wonderfully Made) did a workshop together with Henryk Hommel (principal Georg Mullerschule, Steinhagen) on the Wonderfully Made curriculum. The Georg Mullerschulen have worked on the German translation in order to implement it in the schools.

‘The Bible as a Conversation Partner in Education’: join the free lecture

On Wednesday 23 March 2022 Prof. Jan van Doleweerd will give a (free) lecture about ‘The Bible as a Conversation Partner in Education’.

Wonderfully Made curriculum in Ethiopia 2021 - 2022: Training, contextualization and implementation

In September 2022 the Wonderfully Made curriculum will have become a part of the educational program of the Hope schools in Ethiopia.

Christian Education in your context to a new level: join our Master's programme!

“For my work, the master Learning and Innovation: Christian education has different benefits: first of all, it helped me to improve the content of the trainings we lead for School leaders and Christian teachers. It also helped me to improve my contribution in various of debates related to Christian Education”. Boaz from Burkina Faso

Master’s experience 23 March: ‘Good practices in Christian education’

The Master’s Programme Learning and Innovation, track: Christian Education, will start in September 2022 with a new group of international students. If you want to deepen your knowledge and skills for Christian education, you are welcome to participate. By following this programme experienced teachers, principals, school leaders or people working in educational aid organizations will become teacher leaders.