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What does Dr. Teague mean when he says, “Integration was never the legitimate starting point for a godly pedagogy”?
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I believe that Dr. Teague was implying that integration is not where we start. If we desire to have a godly pedagogy, then we must begin with the Bible, not with the concept of integration. God’s Word must be central to our lives so that our worldview is shaped through biblical truth. If our lives are infused with his Word then it cannot be separated out from our teaching.
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Dr. Teague was correct in his thought that integration isn’t the starting point. How can we integrate that which we don’t know or believe? It is vital that Christian educators have a biblical understanding themselves. How can we teach reading if we don’t know how to read? How can we explain science and creation if we don’t believe or understand that God is the creator?
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I interpreted this as integration is not an optimal solution. Ideally, we would start with God’s word, and integrate secular content.
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He means that with out a Biblical foundation teacher have not hope of Biblical integration. Therefore the starting point is the teachers faith and knowledge of God’s word and then move to the students through infusion of God’s word in our teaching
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First I had to look up the word “pedagogy” and it is basically how teachers teach. I think what Dr. Teague meant was integration was not the starting point of teaching, the subject had to be at the beginning, but the way of giving the information or facts have to be integrated with Biblical truths. The speaker talked about elephants and the excitement that came with this lady experiencing one at the zoo. To me that is the starting point and then how can you integrate a Godly pedagogy to that experience.