Educating Clergy : Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination

by Foster, Charles R.; Dahill, Lisa; Golemon, Larry; Tolentino, Barbara Wang; Shulman, Lee S.; Sullivan, William M.

• ISBN13: 9780787977443
• ISBN10: 0787977446
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-25
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Based on extensive literary and field research involving surveys, classroom observations, and interviews with faculty, students, and administrators in Roman Catholic, mainline and evangelical Protestant, and Reform and Conservative Jewish seminaries, Educating Clergy explores the influence of their historic traditions and academic settings in contemporary classroom and communal pedagogies. The book describes elements in classroom pedagogies shared across these religious traditions that distinctively integrate the cognitive, practical, and normative apprenticeships to be found in all forms of professional education.

Author Biography

Charles Foster is a senior scholar at The Carnegie Foundation, directing the Study on the Clergy as part of the Preparation for the Professions Program. He has been a professor of religion and education at the Candler School of Theology and is also an ordained United Methodist.

Lisa Dahill is a research scholar with the Carnegie Foundation Clergy Study. She received her M.Div from the Lutheran Church in America and a Ph.D in Christian Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union. Dahill is also an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.

Lawrence A. Golemon is a research consultant.

Barbara Wang Tolentino is a research assistant.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Lee S. Shulman
Acknowledgments	xv
About the Authors	xix
Introduction	1	(16)
William M. Sullivan
PART ONE Seminary Education: An Overview	17	(50)
Educating Clergy: A Distinctive Challenge	20	(19)
Common Profession, Diverse Practices	39	(28)
PART TWO Classroom Pedagogies in Forming a Pastoral, Priestly, or Rabbinic Imagination	67	(120)
Pedagogies of Interpretation	70	(30)
Pedagogies of Formation	100	(27)
Pedagogies of Contextualization	127	(29)
Pedagogies of Performance	156	(31)
PART THREE Communal Pedagogies in Forming a Pastoral, Priestly, or Rabbinic Imagination	187	(140)
Traditions of Seminary Education and the Pastoral Imagination	190	(45)
Continuity and Change in the Traditions of Seminary Education	235	(37)
Cultivating Spiritual Practices for Clergy Leadership	272	(24)
Cultivating Professional Practices: Field Education	296	(31)
PART FOUR Seminary Educator Teaching Practices	327	(56)
Teaching Toward Integration: Cultivating the Pastoral, Priestly, or Rabbinic Imagination	329	(26)
An Invitation to Conversation	355	(28)
Appendix	383	(10)
Bibliography	393	(20)
Name Index	413	(8)
Subject Index	421