Integrating work in theological education / edited by Kathleen A. Cahalan, Edward Foley, and Gordon S. Mikoski ; foreword by Stephen R. Graham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graham, Stephen R., writer of foreword.

Mikoski, Gordon S., editor.

Foley, Edward, editor.

Cahalan, Kathleen A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2017.

Summary:

If only we could do a better job of helping students at "connecting the dots," theological educators commonly lament. Integration, often proposed as a solution to the woes of professional education for ministry, would help students integrate knowledge, skills, spirituality, and integrity. When these remain disconnected, incompetence ensues, and the cost runs high for churches, denominations, and ministers themselves. However, we fail in thinking that integrating work is for students alone. It is a multifaceted, constructive process of learning that is contextual, reflective, and dialogical. It aims toward important ends--competent leaders who can guide Christian communities today. It entails rhythms, not stages, and dynamic movement, including disintegration. Integrating work is learning in motion, across domains, and among and between persons. It is social and communal, born of a life of learning together for faculty, staff, administrators and students. It is work that bridges the long-standing gaps between school, ministry practice, and life. It's a verb, not a noun. Here a diverse group of theological educators, through descriptive case studies, theological reflection, and theory building, offer a distinctive contribution to understanding integrating work and how best to achieve it across three domains: in community, curriculums, and courses-- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introducing integrating work? Kathleen A. Cahalan

Part 1. Schools :

1. Widening the aperture : school as agent of the integrating process / Edward Foley

2. What's love got to do with it? : faculty development in a community of practice / Rebecca Slough

3. Integrating foci in a school's renewal process / David Rylaarsdam

4. The ecosystem of theological education : a case study / Edward Foley

5. Harvesting insights / Edward Foley

Part 2. Curriculums :

6. Integrating dynamics in the seminary curriculum / Kathleen A. Cahalan

7. Overhauling the curriculum : a rhetorical model of integrating work / David Rylaarsdam

8. The professor-practitioner program and field education / Jeffrey D. Jones

9. Sanctifying grace in the integrating work of contextual education / David O. Jenkins

10. Harvesting insights / Kathleen A. Cahalan

Part 3. Courses :

11. Integrating work at the course level / Gordon S. Mikoski

12. Using adaptive leadership in redesigning a leadership course / Emily Click

13. A travel seminar and the unfamiliar self / David O. Jenkins

14. Creating a new course on leadership in the small church / Jeffrey D. Jones

15. The pain of racial differences emerges in the integrating course / Jeffery L. Tribble Sr.

16. Online teaching and the challenges of integrating / Edward Foley

17. Harvesting insights / Gordon S. Mikoski

Part 4. Frameworks :

18. Conceptual models and theological frameworks for thinking about integrating work / Gordon S. Mikoski

19. Integrative knowing and practical wisdom / Kathleen A. Cahalan

20. The integrating task : a theological reflection / Edward Foley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 20, 2017).

ISBN:

9781498278805

1498278809