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Exploring Perceptions Of Care In Christian Teacher Education Communities: Toward A Faith-Informed Framework Of Care, Cathy Freytag Jan 2015

Exploring Perceptions Of Care In Christian Teacher Education Communities: Toward A Faith-Informed Framework Of Care, Cathy Freytag

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

During a recent sabbatical (spring 2013), the author investigated perceptions of care in a variety of teacher education programs at Christian colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. My purpose for engaging in this study was to ascertain whether there might be elements of care unique to teacher education programs at Christian institutions that reach beyond prevailing conceptions of care found in the feminist philosophical literature. In this article, I discuss prevalent views of care across sacred and secular lines, detail the research methodology employed in the current study, elaborate upon emergent themes and trends, propose a model …


Letter From The Editor, Scot Headley Jan 2015

Letter From The Editor, Scot Headley

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

Ten years ago this autumn, I sat in an office on the campus of George Fox University with a small group of colleagues who had accepted the responsibility for beginning a scholarly journal that would provide a forum for teacher educators at CCCU and like institutions. We were responding to a call to support the efforts of scholars and practitioners who had been exploring the influence and implications of their Christian faith and worldview on their professional work as educators. We did this by providing a forum for scholars to share their ideas and served practitioners by making ideas, programs, …


Parting Editorial, Christina Belcher Jan 2015

Parting Editorial, Christina Belcher

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

As I settle in at my keyboard, my neighbour (who restores older vehicles), is cruising happily down our street with the windows down and the radio on high. Without restraint, in joyful volume, the Byrds are singing familiar words from the book of Ecclesiastes: “To everything, there is a season … turn, turn, turn; and a time to every purpose unto heaven.” How apt.


Teachers’ Understanding Of Imago Dei, Beverley Norsworthy, Christina Belcher Jan 2015

Teachers’ Understanding Of Imago Dei, Beverley Norsworthy, Christina Belcher

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

Often education is viewed pragmatically as that of preparing students for life as employees. Another view is that education is about enabling human beings to flourish. The pragmatic and flourishing paradox has consequences for national citizenship. For Christian teachers, critical to such an approach would be the manner in which their teaching practice is informed and shaped by a Christian worldview. Such shaping involves an applied knowledge with reference to understanding people, and particularly students as “Imago Dei.” This research presents a pilot study in which 120 teachers in Christian schools in New Zealand and Canada were invited, via an …


The Good Shepherd: Lessons For Teacher Education, Scott Key Jan 2015

The Good Shepherd: Lessons For Teacher Education, Scott Key

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

Across the continent, the demand for increased student achievement dominates conversation. Teacher education programs are under pressure to ensure that pre-service teachers are able to step into classrooms and improve student achievement. This pressure can invite programs to focus on subject-specific and pedagogical competencies while minimizing ethical and relational aspects of teacher preparation. Yet caring relationships are central to more positive learning experiences. What should these relationships look like? For Christian teachers and teacher educators, the answer to this question lays, in part, in an examination of Jesus. This paper focuses on Jesus the Good Shepherd as seen in the …


The Troubled Sense Of Otherness Among Christian And Non-Christian Esl Freshmen At A Christian College In The Midwest, Yin Lam Lee-Johnson Jan 2015

The Troubled Sense Of Otherness Among Christian And Non-Christian Esl Freshmen At A Christian College In The Midwest, Yin Lam Lee-Johnson

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

This study was derived from an ethnographic study conducted with five ESL learners and their peers in a Christian college in the Midwest. The theoretical framework of this article was built upon Freire’s (2000) and Kumashiro’s (2001) anti-oppressive education. The study employed various data sources to find out how Christian and non-Christian ESL freshmen experienced a sense of otherness in the local college community. The findings reveal the hidden norms in the faith-based college, which marginalized the non-Christian ESL freshmen from being legitimate participants (Lave & Wenger, 1991). The researcher provides recommendations to educators and administrators in higher education for …


Problems Of Teaching Religion In Public Schools In Bulgaria Today: Retrospective And Prospective, Nonka Bogomilova Jan 2015

Problems Of Teaching Religion In Public Schools In Bulgaria Today: Retrospective And Prospective, Nonka Bogomilova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Comparison Of The Use Of Gendered Language In Discourse On Christian Theology And Psychology, Chloe Ackerman Jan 2015

Comparison Of The Use Of Gendered Language In Discourse On Christian Theology And Psychology, Chloe Ackerman

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

The English language has historically reflected the sexist principles of Western culture. Common examples include the use of sexist pronouns and nouns such as policeman, businessman, or servicemen to represent men and women. Research in the last 50 years revealed the detrimental effects of sexist language, and the English language was accordingly altered. However, sexist language is still used colloquially and in settings such as Christian theology. This study explored differences in the use of gender language between the discourse on Christian theology and psychology, and tested a method of promoting inclusive gender language in Christian discourse. One hundred thirty-nine …


Ethnic Identity Maintenance Within The Latino-American Church: A Structuration Perspective, Charles W. Choi, Deborah Berho Jan 2015

Ethnic Identity Maintenance Within The Latino-American Church: A Structuration Perspective, Charles W. Choi, Deborah Berho

Faculty Publications - Department of Sociology

The Latino ethnic/immigrant church plays a significant role in maintaining the ethnic identity of its congregants. Through the perspective of structuration theory, this qualitative analysis investigates how the activities of the church impact its members and how an individual might contribute to the cultural structure of the Latino church (i.e., duality of structure). Interviews of 25 pastors from Spanish-speaking congregations in both urban and rural settings in Oregon resulted in several themes including the initial planting of the church, the denominational structure, the emergence of a new multiethnic cultural identity, generational differences, and the influence of Spanish.


Bridging Alone: Religious Conservatism, Marital Homogamy, And Voluntary Association Membership, Young-Il Kim Jan 2015

Bridging Alone: Religious Conservatism, Marital Homogamy, And Voluntary Association Membership, Young-Il Kim

Faculty Publications - Department of Sociology

This study characterizes social insularity of religiously conservative American married couples by examining patterns of voluntary associationmembership. Constructing a dataset of 3938 marital dyads from the second wave of the National Survey of Families and Households, the author investigates whether conservative religious homogamy encourages membership in religious voluntary groups and discourages membership in secular voluntary groups. Results indicate that couples’ shared affiliation with conservative denominations, paired with beliefs in biblical authority and inerrancy, increases the likelihood of religious group membership for husbands and wives and reduces the likelihood of secular group membership for wives, but not for husbands. The social …


Eating Closer To Home: On Being Neighborly (Chapter Four Of To The Table), Lisa Graham Mcminn Jan 2015

Eating Closer To Home: On Being Neighborly (Chapter Four Of To The Table), Lisa Graham Mcminn

Faculty Publications - Department of Sociology

Excerpt: "The dandelions awoke on a sunny day near the end of March, following on the heels of a month's worth of rain that fell in three days' time. Bright yellow flowers opened to the sun, welcoming bees and other insects looking for pollen and nectar, and welcoming a giant forager eager for blossoms to make dandelion wine. "Pick me!" they seemed to say. So I did, knowing more would come. Aware of my fellow harvesters, I waited to pick a blossom until a hardworking bee took off for another blossom or for home, hind legs heavily laden with yellow …


Soloing With Friends, Jeannie Ferriss Jan 2015

Soloing With Friends, Jeannie Ferriss

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Reed And Miller, Leach And Gow, And Mekeel, Jeanne-Henriette Louis Dec 2014

Book Review Of Reed And Miller, Leach And Gow, And Mekeel, Jeanne-Henriette Louis

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Gyford's "Public Spirit: Dissent In Witham And Essex 1500-1700" - Book Review, Sylvia Stevens Dec 2014

Gyford's "Public Spirit: Dissent In Witham And Essex 1500-1700" - Book Review, Sylvia Stevens

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Smith, Feola, And Greaves, Douglas Gwyn Dec 2014

Book Review Of Smith, Feola, And Greaves, Douglas Gwyn

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Educating He Women Of The Nation: Priscilla Wakefield And The Construction Of National Identity, 1798, Camilla Leach, Joyce Goodman Dec 2014

Educating He Women Of The Nation: Priscilla Wakefield And The Construction Of National Identity, 1798, Camilla Leach, Joyce Goodman

Quaker Studies

This article examines the views of the Quaker educationist, Priscilla Wakefield, on the role of women in the construction of British national identity at the end of the eighteenth century. Priscilla Wakefield wrote children's texts in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century England, was interested in the question of women and science and published on the education of women. This article analyses the way in which in Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex, with Suggestions for its Improvement (1798) , she based her arguments for a 'useful' education for women on her views of what constituted the virtues and …


Touched And Knit In The Life: Barclay's Relational Theology And Cartesian Dualism, R Melvin Keiser Dec 2014

Touched And Knit In The Life: Barclay's Relational Theology And Cartesian Dualism, R Melvin Keiser

Quaker Studies

I argue in this paper that Robert Barclay fundamentally uses a relational method in doing theology notwithstanding a growing scholarly consensus that his thought is shaped by Cartesian dualism. The claims of dualism in Barclay are assessed through a close textual interpretation of parts of his 1676 work, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, and his subsequent essay 'The Possibility and Necessity of the Inward and Immediate Revelation of the Spirit of God'. While he explicitly engages Cartesian dualism in this latter work, my conclusion is that when he is arguing apologetically with someone employing dualist categories, as in …


Quaker Plaining As Critical Aesthetic, Peter J. Collins Dec 2014

Quaker Plaining As Critical Aesthetic, Peter J. Collins

Quaker Studies

In the first part of this paper I explore the possibility of identifying a Quaker aesthetic through the concepts 'plain' and 'plaining'. I begin with an examination of the importance of 'the plain' as product and practice to seventeenth-century Friends and briefly outline its enduring importance to Quakers. Friends, however, were not the first group to adopt the plain style which is better understood when located in its broader historical context. For Quakers, the plain is ethic as well as aesthetic, partially grounding all Quaker testimonies. Given the well-documented aestheticization of contemporary life, I argue that the Quaker plain and …


The Study Of Eighteenth-Century English Quakerism: From Rufus Jones To Larry Ingle, David J. Hall Dec 2014

The Study Of Eighteenth-Century English Quakerism: From Rufus Jones To Larry Ingle, David J. Hall

Quaker Studies

This brief study of writing on eighteenth-century English Quaker history begins with an assessment of Rufus Jones's contribution in his The Later Periods of Quakerism (1921). It goes on to supplement the views of the century expressed by Larry Ingle in 'The Future of Quaker History' (1997) by surveying concisely a major proportion of the relevant published work between 1921 and 1997. It refers also to Ingle's identification of gaps and weaknesses in the published literature on the subject.


Editorial, Pink "Ben" Dandelion Dec 2014

Editorial, Pink "Ben" Dandelion

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Religion, Public Life And The State In Putin's Russia, Alexey D. Krindatch Dec 2014

Religion, Public Life And The State In Putin's Russia, Alexey D. Krindatch

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Review Of Pope-Levison's "Building The Old-Time Religion: Women Evangelists In The Progressive Era", Benjamin Hartley Dec 2014

Review Of Pope-Levison's "Building The Old-Time Religion: Women Evangelists In The Progressive Era", Benjamin Hartley

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Review of PRISCILLA POPE-LEVISON. Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 270, ISBN-13: 978-1479889891.


Orde's "Religion, Business And Society In North-East England: The Pease Family Of Darlington In The Nineteenth Century" - Book Review, Gillian Cookson Nov 2014

Orde's "Religion, Business And Society In North-East England: The Pease Family Of Darlington In The Nineteenth Century" - Book Review, Gillian Cookson

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Trevett's "Quaker Women Prophets In England And Wales 1650-1700" - Book Review, Richard Allen Nov 2014

Trevett's "Quaker Women Prophets In England And Wales 1650-1700" - Book Review, Richard Allen

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Adams' "The Creation Was Open To Me: An Anthology Of Friends' Writings On That Of God In All Creation" - Book Review, Geoffrey Morries Nov 2014

Adams' "The Creation Was Open To Me: An Anthology Of Friends' Writings On That Of God In All Creation" - Book Review, Geoffrey Morries

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Manousos' "A Western Quaker Reader: Writings By And About Independent Quakers In The Western United States, 1929-1999" - Book Review, Carole Spencer Nov 2014

Manousos' "A Western Quaker Reader: Writings By And About Independent Quakers In The Western United States, 1929-1999" - Book Review, Carole Spencer

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Bacon's "Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer And Social Activist" - Book Review, Elizabeth A. O'Donnell Nov 2014

Bacon's "Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer And Social Activist" - Book Review, Elizabeth A. O'Donnell

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.


Walter And Emma Malone: Friends Of Sinners And The Poor, John Oliver Nov 2014

Walter And Emma Malone: Friends Of Sinners And The Poor, John Oliver

Quaker Studies

The Malones, leaders of Holiness Quakerism, were presented in The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends 1800-1907, an otherwise excellent early work by historian Thomas Hamm, as leaders of a movement whose ' dominant note ...was opposition to any type of reform activity'. If too strong, it is fair to suggest that numbers of Holiness Friends, including the Malones, were relatively indifferent to political, economic and social reform. But seeing them in this light, or as mere obstructionists to 'modern thought', does not quite capture who they were or what they were about. This article contends the Mal ones had …


'A Protest Against Protestantism': Hicksite Friends And The Bible In The Nineteenth Century, Thomas D. Hamm Nov 2014

'A Protest Against Protestantism': Hicksite Friends And The Bible In The Nineteenth Century, Thomas D. Hamm

Quaker Studies

Differing views of the nature and authority of Scripture were at the heart of the Hicksite Separation of 1827-1828 among American Friends. Mter the separation, the Bible became a source of conflict among Hicksites. Some Hicksite leaders feared anything that tended to diminish the authority of the Bible; other Hicksites argued for a critical view. By 1870, the liberals had the upper hand, as virtually all Hicksite Quakers came to share views of the Bible, including a sympathy for critical scholarship, that mirrored the modernist movement among Protestants.


Like A Dog Walking On Its Hind Legs: Samuel Johnson And Quakers, Paul A. Lacey Nov 2014

Like A Dog Walking On Its Hind Legs: Samuel Johnson And Quakers, Paul A. Lacey

Quaker Studies

Samuel Johnson liked some individual Quakers but disliked the sect; an examination of his encounters with them, as reported in Boswell's Life, along with reminiscences of the Lloyd family, Mary Knowles and Anna Seward, throws significant light on both Johnson's religious and social views and on some aspects of the Quakerism of his time. The commonly-held view of Quakerism in the Quietist period is, in W. C. Braithwaite's phrase, that these were 'years of outward respectability and inward spiritual decline'. He adds that 'religion as a whole was suffering from the lassitude of Dissent and the devastations of Deism'. Kathryn …