Lifelong Learning: Theological Education and Supervision [Paperback]

Frances Ward (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 26, 2011

Learning provides an accessible and thorough resource for all those involved in theological education, ministerial formation and ministerial supervision. It explores the nature of ministry and tbrmation for 21st Century church and public life. It argues for the importance of supervision in the learning contexts of placement. parish and pastorate and presents an exciting model of supervision as reflective practice that draws on existing literature from different disciplines, including other helping professions, literature and practical theology and the methods and insights of Clinical Pastoral Education. Chapters cover stimulating and useful areas tbr consideration by the theological educator and ministerial student. such as doing theological reflection in context; resistance to learning; coping with loss and thilure; dynamics of power in ministry and issues of transculturalism, gender and sexuality in ministry. It also offers was in which the effectiveness of placement learning can be evaluated. Frances Ward is a priest in the Diocese of Manchester and is also co-author of Studying Local Churchcs:.4 Handbook, and co-author of Theological Rqlectioir Methods, both SCM Press.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: SCM Press (July 26, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0334029627
• ISBN-13: 978-0334029625
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,570,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lifelong Learning, January 28, 2009

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Harold O'Neal Simpson (Montgomery, Alabama,USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lifelong Learning: Theological Education and Supervision (Paperback)

This book gave me a new perspective on ministry. To be able to look into those case studies of the lives of the other ministers was helpful. Engaging the journaling process was more effective for me this time than it was in my earlier class. I saw what I was doing and how it was affecting my ministry and the quality of it. In our ministries as pastors and administrators we make choices that affect our ministries, the Ward text really highlighted how this bears on our lives. This ia a book I will keep and refer to often.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lifelong Learning Review, March 20, 2006

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Sandie G (England, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lifelong Learning: Theological Education and Supervision (Paperback)

At the points where there were examples of what was being written about, the book was fine; unfortunately there were places where fairly complex terminology was being used, and where an example or two of exactly what the words meant would have helped enormously.