Gloria Goris Stronks, Ed.D.

702 W. Briar Cliff Ct.
Spokane, WA 99218
Stro@calvin.edu

 

Gloria is now a Scholar in Residence at Whitworth College in Spokane, WA. She continues her work with schools in Mongolia, Russia and North America and also is board president of Worldwide Christian Schools. Gloria and her daughter Julia Stronks, Prof. of Political Science at Whitworth, have just begun work on a new book.

Honors and Awards:

  • Coordinator for the l99l-92 study team for the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. The topic for this study is "Theory and Practice of Christian Schooling in the Reformed Tradition." The scholars who participated were from Australia, Canada, and the U.S.

  • Staley Foundation Distinguished Lecturer for Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA, April, 1994.

  • B.J. Haan Lecturer at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, 1995.

  • Honored as a Distinguished Friend of Christian Education at the seventy-fifth anniversary of Christian Schools International, July 1995.

  • B.J. Haan Lecturer at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, March 1996.

  • Staley Foundation Distinguished Lecturer at Geneva College, March,1998.

  • Ron Nelson Lecturer at Northwestern College in Sioux Center, Iowa, September 2000.

Publications:

Books
  • Gloria Goris Stronks. The Christian Middle School: An Ethos of Caring. A book for middle school teachers, administrators, and board members providing vision and direction for a Christian middle school. Published by Christian Schools International, l99l. Can be downloaded free of charge at: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/education/faculty/stronks/msbook/
  • Gloria Goris Stronks and Doug Blomberg, A Vision With A Task: Christian Schooling for Responsive Discipleship. Result of work completed with P. R. Koole, H. Van Brummelen, and S Vryhof in the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. Baker, 1993. Can be downloaded free of charge at: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/education/vision
  • DeBoer, Van Brummelen, Blomberg, Koole, & Stronks, Educating Christian Teachers for Responsive Discipleship. Christian Studies Today Series. UPA, 1993.
  • D.John Lee and Gloria Goris Stronks. Assessment in Christian Higher Education: Rhetoric and Reality , UPA, 1994.
  • Stronks, J.K.. & Stronks, G.G. Christian Teachers in Public Schools. Baker, 1999.
  • Stronks, G.G. & Knol, N. Reaching and Teaching Young Adolescents: Succeeding in Deeper Waters. Association for Christian Schools International, 1999.
  • Educating for Life: Wolterstorff's Reflections on Christian Teaching and Learning. Eds. G. G. Stronks & C. Joldersma, Baker, 2002. Presently being translated into the Korean language.
  • Educating for Shalom: Wolterstorff's Reflections on Christian Higher Education. Eds. C.Joldersma and G.G. Stronks. Eerdmans, 2004.
  • "The Nature of the Learner." In Foundations of Christian School Education: Perspectives on Christian Teaching. Editors: James Braley, Jack Layman, & Ray White. ACSI, 2003.

Articles

  • "What Brings the Reader to Reading?" ERIC Document of paper presented at the International Reading Association, 1982.
  • "Collaborative Learning in Higher Education". In College and Adult Reading: The Fourteenth Yearbook of the North Central Reading Association, 1988.
  • "Even the Tea is Different: A Look at British Primary Schools." Christian Educators Journal. December/January l99O. Vol. 29, No. 2.
  • "Assessing Outcomes in Christian Higher Education." Faculty Dialogue, Spring l99O.
  • "A Different Way of Educating." Christian Educators Journal. Vol. 3O, No. 3, February, l99l.
  • "Are These the Schools We Wanted?" Christian Educators Journal. December l99l.
  • "To See the Church Through Their Eyes." Perspectives. December, l99l.
  • "Christian Schools Then and Now". Calvinist Contact, February, l992.
  • "The Schools We Don't Deserve," Christian Educators Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1, October, 1992.
  • "What is happening in Christian middle schools?" Christian Educators Journal. Vol. 34. No. 4, April 1995.
  • "Myths and Realities in Christian Education." Pro Rege , Vol. XXIII, No. 4, June 1995.
  • "Promising Practices in Christian Schools: Mission to practice." Pro Rege, Vol. XXIV, No. 4, June, 1996.
  • "The Christian Middle School: Making a space for learning." Nurture (an Australian journal for Christian educators), July, 1997.
  • "A Discipleship Curriculum for Middle School." Christian Educators Journal February, 1998.
  • "Will our faith have children?" The Banner. February, 1999.
  • "Tendency Learning in Christian Schools: Holy the Extraordinary" ACSI, Vol. 4, no. 3, 2000-2001.