Overview
- Explores how educators might reconceive graduate student formation as rooted in the tradition of the Christian practice of stewardship
- Calls for a re-thinking of faculty formation in the twenty-first century to embrace the idea of "stewards of the discipline" for academic life
- Suggests practical ways Christians working in the university can formulate pedagogical practices that account for students’ differing levels of privilege and resources
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Vocation and a Scholarly Life of Stewardship
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Faithful Teachers and Pedagogical Practices
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Church and Academy: Stewarding our Faith and our Universities
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About this book
can guide the pursuit of teaching and scholarship.
Reviews
“This volume exhibits the rare combination of classical theories and texts examined in the context of current educational research and topics. The contributors are leading scholars devoted to sustaining and strengthening the liberal arts in undergraduate and post-graduate Christian higher education. Scales and Howell have given the scholarly community—both Christian and secular—a beautiful and useful gift.” (Roger Ward, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown College, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jennifer L. Howell is a PhD student in Religion at Baylor University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Christian Faith and University Life
Book Subtitle: Stewards of the Academy
Editors: T. Laine Scales, Jennifer L. Howell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61744-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61743-5Published: 06 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87151-6Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61744-2Published: 25 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 285
Topics: Religion and Education, Higher Education, Curriculum Studies, Christianity