Author: John H. Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781929569489
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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This book is about the innovative field of post-credentialing professional education within the specific context of ministry and related human service fields -- pastoral work, education, health care, administration, counseling, media studies and mediation. The interest here is to create a network through which student professionals navigate; this network will allow them to take advantage of educational opportunities which best serve their professional needs. This navigation of educational programs allows students to in effect package their education, providing both excellent educational opportunities to students as well as substantial benefits to the educational programs. There are enough excellent theological schools for residential study in the United States. What is being described here is a New Paradigm of professional education for those who are motivated to continue to advance their education while they maintain their professional employment. Such a networking of educational programs is an innovative development within the field of higher education, and one which allows for maximum flexibility and options for the serious student.
Author: Yin Cheong Cheng
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402036205
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 509
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In response to the challenges of globalization and local development, educational reforms are inevitably becoming one of the major trends in the Asia-Pacific Region or other parts of the world. Based on the most recent research and international observations, this book aims to present a new paradigm including various new concepts, frameworks and theories for reengineering education. This book has 21 chapters in three sections. Section I "New Paradigm of Educational Reform" containing eight chapters, illustrates the new paradigm and frameworks of reengineering education, fostering human development and analysing reform policies and also discusses the trends and challenges of educational reforms in the Asia-Pacific Region. Section II "New Paradigm of Educational Leadership" with five chapters aims to elaborate how the nature, role and practice of school leadership can be transformed towards a new paradigm and respond to the three waves of education reforms. Section III "Reengineering School Management for Effectiveness" with eight chapters aims to provide various practical frameworks for reengineering school management processes and implementing changes in school practices.
Author: Ian Cunningham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000176088
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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Self Managed Learning and the New Educational Paradigm proposes revolutionary change to the educational system. The overwhelming research evidence is that the sum total of educational and training input accounts typically for only 10–20% of what makes a person an effective human being. Balancing theory, evidence and practice, this ground-breaking book demonstrates that current structures in education are ill-equipped to support a learning-based approach. It establishes the case that learning, as a core human activity, is too important to be left to schools and other educational institutions. The book goes beyond just a critique of current practice in showing how a New Educational Paradigm can work. Self Managed Learning College (for 9–17 year olds) has no classrooms, no lessons, no imposed timetable and no imposed curriculum. This is a place where students can learn whatever they want, in any way they want and whenever they want. And it works – as evidenced by the lives of former students and from academic research. Dr Ian Cunningham, its founder, draws also on his extensive work in using Self Managed Learning in many of the world’s largest organisations to show how this new paradigm can be put into practice. The book blends the unequivocal research evidence that we need a New Educational Paradigm with a real live demonstration of what it could look like. It should be essential reading for anyone wanting to see how a new approach to education can be achieved.
Author: Vic Wiens
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039123651
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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Paradigm shifts in culture occur about every 250 years. Significant cultural shifts have taken place from Egyptian times to the Babylonian exile, to the time of Alexander the Great to the Roman Empire. The Scholastic, Renaissance, and Reformation paradigms followed in quick succession, influencing thought, industry, and religion. Education being part of culture, it too has experienced significant paradigm shifts. The mandate to pass on our Christian faith to the next generation is a constant that has not changed, though the methods of doing so have undergone significant change. With consideration of the role of the family patriarch in every cultural paradigm and the triad of family, church, and Christian school, this book seeks to impart: • The understanding of this continuing mandate • The understanding of the current level of cultural change • The understanding of the best practices for passing on our faith through historical cultural changes We are currently in the transition from the Modern paradigm to a yet to be named postmodern paradigm. This very day will be a significant time in history. How will our generation pass on our faith to the next generation in a manner that is consistent with the ongoing story of God’s people?
Author: Mark Husbands
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830825665
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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This outstanding collection of essays, presented at the 2005 Wheaton Theology Conference, explores the current issue of women in ministry from biblical, theological and ecclesiological perspectives. Bringing to bear the ministerial and sociological insights on the issue, this impressive integrative work aims to break through the current impasse between complementarians and egalitarians. These essays point the way forward for women and men in ministry in our churches. Contributors include Henri Blocher, Timothy George, James Hamilton, I. Howard Marshall, Cheryl J. Sanders, Sarah Sumner and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
Author: Stephen J. Godfrey
Publisher: Clements Pub
ISBN: 9781894667326
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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In this provocative book two authors--one a scientist, the other a biblical scholar and pastor--recount the pilgrimages of understanding that have led them from the young-earth, "scientific creationist" position they were taught in their youths to new perspectives on what it can mean to believe in God as Creator.
Author: Jeffrey Keuss
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310514851
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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BETTER INFORMED, BETTER EQUIPPED TO MINISTER to today’s blurred youth culture Mobile. Connected. Wired in. This is a generation that skips over perceived cultural boundaries and resists definition. They are a mash-up of identity, a blur of old categories and classes. Creators and consumers of a rapidly changing culture. But how does one reach a demographic that is so difficult to pin down? Many of the most popular approaches to youth ministry today begin by portraying youth as collections of fixed snapshots, “profiles” based on sociological research studies. Yet according to Dr. Jeff Keuss, today’s teens cannot be adequately characterized by these simplistic and static descriptions. Keuss argues that what is needed, instead, is a qualitative approach to describing young people, one that recognizes the “blurred” nature of today’s mobile youth culture. Jeff Keuss presents an optimistic new way of thinking about youth, one that sees them more holistically and less clinically. As we learn to see youth culture through this new lens, we will become better informed and better equipped to minister to the teens of today’s rapidly changing world.
Author: Peter Crafts Hodgson
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN: 9780800620721
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"This book embraces a wide spectrum of contemporary movements, filters them through the biblical record, and produces a model of the church that can make an impact and last for a long time. It is excellent for scholars, pastors, and congregational study." -Carl S. Dudley, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois.
Author: David Heywood
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334060427
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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The Church is currently experiencing a transition in the way it understands and practises both mission and ministry. It is to be outward-looking, engaging with the wider community, involving all its members in mission and clergy are to play the role of enablers and equippers of the ministry of the whole church. However, ministerial formation in colleges and courses throughout the country lags behind this emerging consensus. ‘Theological education’ is still largely based on academic models. Reimagining Ministerial Formation offers a new way forward, where ‘ministry’ comes to be about the whole church, and ministerial formation is about collaboration between clergy and laity. It argues strongly for a shift away from ‘front-loaded’ training, to a new focus on formation as a life-long process.
Author: Bernhard Ott
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610975952
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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Beyond Fragmentation is an inquiry into the development of mission studies in evangelical theological education in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland between 1960-1995. This is carried out by a detailed examination of the paradigm shifts, which have taken place in recent years in both the theology of mission and the understanding of theological education. David Bosch's proposal of an emerging ecumenical mission paradigm is examined with reference to the schools in membership with the Konferenz Bibeltreuer Ausbildungsstatten (KBA). The KBA schools have been greatly influenced by the work of Peter Beyerhaus and the Frankfurt Declaration (1970), and, as such, defend a conservative theological position and resist the challenge of Bosch's mission paradigm shift, the key issue being that of hermeneutics. Ott further explores the emerging new paradigm of theological education in both the Western and Two Thirds World contexts. While the evangelical Bible school movement has historically embodied many of the features of this new paradigm, they nevertheless have jeopardized these by their pursuit of academic accreditation. Ott believes that theological conservatism has caused the KBA schools to resist changes in the areas of contextual and inductive learning. Finally, Ott studies the schools' pattern of change and change-resistance through combining the insights of Thomas Kuhn, Hans Kung and Alasdair MacIntyre to hermeneutical and epistemological issues.
