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Jesus and Transformative Teaching

In our time, the image of the teacher has become so thoroughly the product of a professionalized, institutionalized context that it is increasingly difficult to imagine radically different alternatives of what a teacher might be. A teacher has a classroom, has a certain number of students; has an advanced degree, has a supervisor: across nations and cultures we can envision this archetype in our mind's eye. If a young person says they want to become a teacher, everyone has a pretty similar idea of what that means. Of course the word "teacher" is used more broadly, and people are called teachers who do not fit all these characteristics. Nevertheless, in general, most people (including those who work in university departments or colleges of education) proceed from day to day on the assumption that preparing teachers means preparing students for this very particular role and context.

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Recovering Religiosity For Use in Outcomes Assessment Within the Bible College

As with other institutions of higher education, ABHE schools have been asked to prove that they are accomplishing institutional goals through participation in the development and use of clear outcomes based assessment plans (ABHE 2007, p. 1). New standards, developed in 2000, include “a commitment to spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development that is consistent with biblical higher education” (ABHE 2005, p. 27) but the precise elements of such development are not detailed within ABHE publications nor may such detail be possible.

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