The New Paradigm in Ministry Education: A Radical Philosophy of Collaboration

by Morgan, John H.

• ISBN13: 9781929569489
• ISBN10: 1929569483
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-02
• Publisher: Victoria Pr
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Summary

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 Biography

John Morgan, Ph.D.(Hartford), D.Sc.(London), Psy.D.(Oxford), has taught a doctoral seminar in the summer international program at Oxford University and has been a Board of Studies member since 1995. He has held postdoctoral appointments at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and has been a National Science Foundation Science Faculty Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He is the Sir Julian Huxley Professor of the History and Philosophy of Education at Cloverdale College and the Karl Mannheim Professor of the History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the Graduate Theological Foundation where he has been president since 1982. He is the author of over thirty books in philosophy and the social sciences and the former Editor-in- Chief of the Rhodes-Fulbright International Library.