This book is about exploring and presenting a model of digital-based curriculum for Christian education suitable for the digital ways of learning, communicating, and thinking. Park discusses the limitations of analog-based curricula, most of current curricula, and necessities for digital-oriented ones. Then, he provides a new model of curriculum–curriculum as software. Curriculum as software is a curricular framework for embracing digital culture like open-flat network, service-centered management, interactive communication, and offline-online hybrid learning space. It consists of four spiral stages: analysis, design, simulation, and service. In the process of designing units, 4R Movement–a new learning theory–is utilized to encourage today’s young people to construct their own knowledge after critically analyzing various resources of information. 4R-embeded courses are implemented in the four movements: reflection, reinterpretation, re-formation, and re-creation.
About the author
Jong Soo Park is an educator and minister working at the Uniting Church in Australia. He is also the founder/director of Australian Centre for Migrant-church Education (ACME). His primary concern is to support contemporary churches and families to lead a proper Christian education for today’s young people living in a digital and multicultural society. For this, he has researched a paradigm of digital-oriented curriculum and developed Christian education resources based on his model. He holds a Ph D from the University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia.
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