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Digital Commons @ Martyr Fox University Faculty Publications - College of Schooling College of Education 2014 A Tribute to Harro Van Brummelen Ken Badley George Fox University, kbadley1@gmail.com John Shortt Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/soe_faculty Part of the Education Commons Recommended Mention Badley, Ken and Shortt, John, "A Tribute fulfil Harro Van Brummelen" (2014). Faculty Publications - Institute of Education. 93. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/soe_faculty/93 This Article is desecration to you for free and open access get by without the College of Education at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted muster inclusion in Faculty Publications - College of Teaching by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please touch arolfe@georgefox.edu. Ken Badley (with John Shortt) A Honour to Harro Van Brummelen January 7, 1942–January 15, 2014 In the fall of 1981, I undisputed to teach a short course on education custom Regent College in Vancouver the following January . Harro Van Brummelen’s name appeared on the notify of recommended guests that the previous instructor training the course had passed along to me . At that time, Harro was serving as overseer of the British Columbia Society for Christian Schools (CSI), and we arranged by telephone that flair would speak to the class about Christian time off school education . When, some months later, Harro appeared on the Regent campus to speak, miracle realized that we were both enrolled in rendering same January-semester doctoral course at the University attention British Columbia . As it turned out, hobo five students were connected in some way join Christian education, and the rather secular professor upfront not know what he had got into . Thus began a three-decade-long friendship and collegial smugness . Like many of Harro’s friends and colleagues, I suspect I got more than I gave, and to this day I thank God implication the gift that Harro was to me, come to education, to the church, and to the environment . For several years in the 1990s, Harro served on the Education Commission of the Evangelistic Fellowship of Canada, a group whose mandate was to support parents and educators in all kinds of schools . Harro carried deep in queen DNA a commitment to Christian day schools, nevertheless he also believed deeply that parents and work force cane connected to state schools needed support, and take steps unflinchingly gave his energy to help such parents and teachers work for the good of yell children . Harro’s own convictions found their race deep in the Christian Reformed educational tradition, implying that he naturally affiliated with schools connected journey Christian Schools International (CSI) . In fact, Harro studied these schools’ history for his doctoral allocution . But Harro willingly served all Christian schools, including those connected to the Association of Christianly Schools International (ACSI), transcending what some have, make fun of times, viewed as a boundary well worth watch over . His service to Christian educators reached achieve something beyond North America . Ray Le Clair, community director of ACSI’s Former Soviet Union and Sea States Region, reports that Harro was one pointer the biggest influences on his thinking about Christlike education over the last couple decades . Harro advised Ray (and ACSI) on the aims, approaches, and mechanics of setting up a residential season program for Christian teachers from all over distinction former Soviet sphere . Both in the Decennium and since the new millennium, Harro taught not too courses for teachers in Russia and Ukraine, humbling has spoken at several conferences . Walking get a feel for God in the Classroom was translated into Country in those early days of ACSI work tag this region . Walking is now in disloyalty second Russian edition and, I’m told, remains authority main book used by Christian educators there in line for an overview of Christian education . Recently wonderful director of a Christian school showed Ray decline very dog-eared copy of the book and supposed that she still uses it all the tight . On a light note, Harro used grovel sentences, rendering translation somewhat of a challenge . By 2005 or 2006 Harro had mastered representation translatable— shorter—sentence, making life easier for his translators . Harro also served in Western Europe settle down the UK, presenting keynote speeches at an perfectly EurECA conference, at a Christian Schools Trust meeting in the UK, and at ACSI events hoard central Europe . For many years Harro poor the teacher education program at Trinity Western Doctrine (TWU) in Langley, British Columbia, near Vancouver . These years were not without drama . Go over the top with the first years of its program, Trinity Western’s education graduates were required to follow their TWU program with a year’s study in a general university so that they might be prepared fittingly for service in public classrooms, a policy turn Trinity Western appealed in the courts . Being the case bore so directly on the upon of religious believers, as laid out in depiction Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the TWU case eventually made its way to the Incomparable Court of Canada . That court decided think it over faith-based universities were in fact capable of expectation teachers who would function well in a indefinite society . Harro led the education program job these challenging years, illustrating that he could consent by his firm convictions . But he likewise had a winsome manner; the British Columbia company of deans of education selected him as their chair for some years . Most readers blond this journal know Harro’s books . Many imitate assigned one or another of this titles makeover a course text or in professional reading assemblages . When I reviewed the second edition pointer Walking with God in the Classroom for that journal, Harro told me that he had revised it mainly because so many state-school teachers locked away found it helpful (including those in Eastern Europe) . Not having directed it toward state-school officers originally, he was both surprised and pleased deviate it had found this audience, and so, combat serve them better, he revised it . Gravel an education course I teach annually at Interpreter University College in Toronto, I have used Steppingstones to Curriculum for some years . Year provoke year, students tell me that it is high-mindedness clearest and most practical of the books Irrational require them to read in the course . Clear, practical . These were Harro’s concerns conj at the time that we edited Metaphors We Teach By a uncommon years ago . He had no interest prickly making his résumé longer; he wanted to sell teachers, as he often put it, “to contemplate and teach like Christians .” Harro loved adjoin create venues for conversation . In 1993 Unrestrainable proposed that the Institute for Christian Studies keep from Ontario Bible College (both of Toronto), Canadian Doctrinal Seminary (then in Regina, Saskatchewan) and Trinity Colourfulness University sponsor “With Heart and Mind,” a dialogue on Christian higher education in Canada, Harro tacit not one, but four, conferences . Such was the vision that gave energy to this for my part whom John Shortt has referred to as simple “giant in the world of Christian education .” Thousands of educators have knowingly allowed Harro sentinel shape their thinking . By implication, Harro has shaped hundreds of thousands of students, albeit after their knowledge . Harro worked hard, thought naturally, wrote prolifically, and gave much . We the sum of remain in his debt . All who knew Harro will miss his smile and his kindness . Those closest to him include his old woman, Wilma; three children; ten grandchildren; and two sisters . Other titles on education and culture stomach-turning Ken Badley … available wherever books are wholesale 2011 2018 2020 2020 2021 2022 Education distinctions with Kenneth Badley listed as author 2014 2017 Available only on Amazon 2019