1. Teaching and Learning in Non-degree Settings

2. One Definition Lifelong learning is more than just education and training beyond formal schooling. A lifelong learning framework encompasses learning throughout the life cycle, from birth to grave and in different learning environments, formal, non-formal and informal settings. http://www.worldbank.org/education/lifelong_learning/overview.asp

3. The changing landscape A dramatic corrective to the “culture of expertise” A dramatic change in our understanding of who does ministry A dramatic change in our understanding of what ministry is A dramatic change in our understanding of mission

4. We’re not settled yet! How do you picture the classroom?

5. The Evolution What? Why? Who? When? Where? How?

6. Another Definition Education for Ministry is centrally concerned with preparing Christians to reflect and act effectively in the church and in the world. James Whitehead and Evelyn Whitehead, Method in Ministry, p. 165

7. Characteristics of adult learners Have years of experience and wisdom Have established values Expect to be treated as adults Need to be self-directed Ready to learn when questions and problems arise Have increased variation in learning styles

8. Characteristics of adult learners Multi-cultural, multi-generational, multi- intelligences, multi-media, multi-network Hungering to experience God Sense the safety of the setting Demand integrity in teaching and learning: Does it “hold together?”

9. Polarities Inhaling and Exhaling CEO and Spiritual Leader Something to learning and something to teach Action and Reflection Orientation and Disorientation

13. Theological Reflection Prayerfully enter Recount the event Notice the physical sensations Notice the images, stories, texts, pictures that come to mind Ask questions of the images, stories, sensations and the event itself Enter conversation with others Adapted from Killen and DeBeer, The Art of Theological Reflection

14. Another Definition The imaginative capacity to envision in the unexpected incidents of practice possibilities for intentionally helping people grow in faith all life long through study, through reflection upon their experience.” Educating Clergy, p. 123

15. Resources Patricia O’Connell Killen and John de Beer, The Art of Theological Reflection James Whitehead and Evelyn Whitehead, Method in Ministry “Friday Mailing,” Joanna Cox, joanna.cox@c-of- e.org.ukjoanna.cox@c-of- e.org.uk http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacD evCom/guidebk/teachtip/adults-2.htm http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacD evCom/guidebk/teachtip/adults-2.htm The Way Ahead Church, Appendix 5, http://www.natsoc.org.uk/schools/the_way_ahead/re port.html http://www.natsoc.org.uk/schools/the_way_ahead/re port.html