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The Fingerprint Of Denominational Secondary Schools - Sector Specific Features Among Graduating Students In Universities And Colleges, Gabriella Pusztai
The Fingerprint Of Denominational Secondary Schools - Sector Specific Features Among Graduating Students In Universities And Colleges, Gabriella Pusztai
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
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"George Fox University" In Founded By Friends: A Collection Of Essays On The Quaker Colleges In America, Paul N. Anderson
"George Fox University" In Founded By Friends: A Collection Of Essays On The Quaker Colleges In America, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Excerpt: "George Fox University is owned by Northwest Yearly Meeting, which appoints all its trustees. Four-sevenths of these must be Friends, and this relationship keeps the institution close to its parent religious body. This being the case, a high degree of interaction exists between Northwest Yearly Meeting and the university, and this relationship is felt to be mutually beneficial. While the number of Friends students in the traditional undergraduate program has remained between 74 and 145 over the past three decades or more (making up between 4 and 15 percent of the traditional undergraduate population), aspects of Quaker identity are …
“The Grand Experiment:” Modeling Adult Learning With Adult-Ministry Students, Laura Simmons
“The Grand Experiment:” Modeling Adult Learning With Adult-Ministry Students, Laura Simmons
Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary
Adult-learning theory challenges faculty to adapt their teaching to certain characteristics of adult learners, including self-direction: if adults direct the bulk of their lives outside of school, so should they be permitted to direct their own educational experiences. To what extent is self-directed learning an optimal, or even realistic, methodology for seminary teaching? Does it matter what subjects we are teaching? This essay details an experiment with self-directed learning in a seminary ministry class: what worked; what might be altered before experimenting again with this teaching methodology; how it challenges our view of ourselves as faculty to teach in this …