Educating Clergy: Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination

by Charles R. Foster, William M. Sullivan (Introduction), Charles R. Foster

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.

Genres: Leadership, Theology

464 pages, Hardcover

First published November 25, 2005

Reviews

[Jamie Nelson]

I brought this book up in conversation yesterday and was reminded of how influential it was in my seminary education. It's perhaps surprising as this book is mostly rather dry case studies. But all at once I felt like after hanging out for several years in a small forest grove with trees that were well-known and beloved, I suddenly could see the entire forest ecosystem in which my home grove was embedded.