{"product_id":"forming-learners-or-consumers-sixbert-sangwa-9798184002279","title":"Forming Learners or Consumers?: School Spectacle, Pleasure-Seeking Culture, and the Crisis of Christian Educational Formation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat kind of children are our schools really forming?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross many schools today, education is increasingly surrounded by ceremonies, themed events, costly study tours, branded experiences, social-media display, and compulsory extras. Many of these activities appear harmless, enjoyable, or even educational. Yet repeated practices quietly teach children what to love, what to admire, what to expect, and what to associate with success, belonging, and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eForming Learners or Consumers?\u003c\/b\u003e offers a serious Christian critique of this growing school culture. Prof. Sixbert SANGWA examines how ordinary educational practices can train children toward consumption, performance, comparison, pleasure-seeking, and dependence on spectacle rather than wisdom, discipline, stewardship, service, and truthful purpose before God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book does not attack teachers, parents, or schools. It affirms joyful learning, meaningful field experiences, ceremony, play, and community when they are purposeful, proportionate, and curriculum-aligned. Its concern is with excess, misnaming, financial pressure, weak educational justification, ceremonial inflation, and the subtle weakening of parental authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from biblical theology, educational philosophy, curriculum theory, consumer-culture critique, child formation, and policy analysis, the book asks hard but necessary questions: Are school activities truly educational or merely entertaining? Are children being formed as image-bearers or as consumers? Are parents respected as partners or treated mainly as financiers? Are Christian schools resisting the spirit of the age or simply baptizing it with religious language?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePractical and pastoral, this book includes guidance for parents, school leaders, church boards, and Christian educators, along with policy tools for evaluating ceremonies, study tours, compulsory extras, opt-out protections, and curriculum alignment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers concerned about Christian education, school culture, parenting, educational stewardship, and the moral formation of children, this book is a timely call to recover education that forms learners for wisdom, purpose, service, and joy before God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sixbert Sangwa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184002279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Sixbert Sangwa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173897740543,"sku":"9798184002279","price":6.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1ec3ac9-4caa-42fe-84fb-188c95fcf112.jpg?v=1788956900","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forming-learners-or-consumers-sixbert-sangwa-9798184002279","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}