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Partners in Ministerial Formation: Shifting the Pedagogical Center (for the Expanding Ministry Formation into New Pedagogical Contexts RFP)
Proposal abstract :
This project proposes a new model for creating cooperative pedagogical spaces for ministry formation. Wake Forest University School of Divinity will convene a year-long seminar in 2012-13 for ministry leaders and theological educators to develop cooperative pedagogies of ministerial formation, which will be implemented in newly designed courses to be offered in the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years. These courses will shift the conventional center of theological education pedagogies from the classroom to the ministry site, positioning faculty and clergy as partners in ministerial formation.
Learning Abstract :
Attentive to the changing landscapes of ministry, "Partners in Ministerial Formation: Shifting the Pedagogical Center" created five courses that explored emerging wisdom about the practice of ministry. Courses in public and nonprofit leadership, monastic spirituality, congregational narrative and identity, and African American culinary culture pushed the classroom out into the world, partnering with ministry practitioners and local ministry settings to explore course themes in conversation with lived religious experience. Some courses developed projects in local ministry settings that made a lasting impact in those communities. All of the courses excavated emerging wisdom about the life and work of ministry, making the seminary a public setting in which ministry leaders found space to reflect on their practice of ministry, and seminary students joined them in that journey.
This project proposes a new model for creating cooperative pedagogical spaces for ministry formation. Wake Forest University School of Divinity will convene a year-long seminar in 2012-13 for ministry leaders and theological educators to develop cooperative pedagogies of ministerial formation, which will be implemented in newly designed courses to be offered in the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years. These courses will shift the conventional center of theological education pedagogies from the classroom to the ministry site, positioning faculty and clergy as partners in ministerial formation.
Learning Abstract :
Attentive to the changing landscapes of ministry, "Partners in Ministerial Formation: Shifting the Pedagogical Center" created five courses that explored emerging wisdom about the practice of ministry. Courses in public and nonprofit leadership, monastic spirituality, congregational narrative and identity, and African American culinary culture pushed the classroom out into the world, partnering with ministry practitioners and local ministry settings to explore course themes in conversation with lived religious experience. Some courses developed projects in local ministry settings that made a lasting impact in those communities. All of the courses excavated emerging wisdom about the life and work of ministry, making the seminary a public setting in which ministry leaders found space to reflect on their practice of ministry, and seminary students joined them in that journey.